Explore Arvanitika through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Arvanitika in a sentence
Arvanitika meaning
An archaic form of the Albanian language spoken by a linguistic minority in Greece.
Using Arvanitika
- The main meaning on this page is: An archaic form of the Albanian language spoken by a linguistic minority in Greece.
Context around Arvanitika
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Arvanitika
- In this selection, "arvanitika" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, call, southern, speak, proper and albanian stand out and add context to how "arvanitika" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include albanian but arvanitika and can call arvanitika proper southern. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "arvanitika" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with arvanitika
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Today they refer to themselves not as Albanians but as Arvanites, and call the language they speak not Albanian but Arvanitika. (21 words)
It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language. (23 words)
From a strictly dialectological point of view, what we can call Arvanitika proper (Southern Arvanitika in Botsi’s terms) represents the southernmost extension of the Albanian dialect continuum with a consistent and gradual development of isoglosses. (36 words)
A few years later, at the time of the Greek revolution, Psalidas refutes, for obvious reasons, the term Arvanitia and comments: “Epirus is wrongly referred to as Arvanitia, since no one there knows how to speak Arvanitika (Albanian)”. (38 words)
From a strictly dialectological point of view, what we can call Arvanitika proper (Southern Arvanitika in Botsi’s terms) represents the southernmost extension of the Albanian dialect continuum with a consistent and gradual development of isoglosses. (36 words)
It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language. (23 words)
Example sentences (4)
From a strictly dialectological point of view, what we can call Arvanitika proper (Southern Arvanitika in Botsi’s terms) represents the southernmost extension of the Albanian dialect continuum with a consistent and gradual development of isoglosses.
A few years later, at the time of the Greek revolution, Psalidas refutes, for obvious reasons, the term Arvanitia and comments: “Epirus is wrongly referred to as Arvanitia, since no one there knows how to speak Arvanitika (Albanian)”.
It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language.
Today they refer to themselves not as Albanians but as Arvanites, and call the language they speak not Albanian but Arvanitika.