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Notes on Arbëreshë
Arbëreshë is a variant of the Albanian language. Most of the speaker of Arbëreshë live in the southern part of Italy, from Abruzzi to Sicily, where they were allowed to settle by the King of Naples (at those times, the 15th century, the Aragonese).
They moved from present-day Albania and northern Greece at the time of the Ottoman Occupation (from 1450 to the first half of the 18th century). Their language lacks the many Turkish loans of present day Albanian, and evolved independently for about half a millennium. Arbëreshë does have many loans from Italian or local Italian languages (Neapolitan, Sicilian). It is divided in different varieties, sometime with differences in spelling and in pronunciation among them. It is a recognized minority language, and the Italian law allows its teaching at the elementary school level or above (where, generally, only a local variety is taught).
