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Arb\uebresh\ueb

2019

The essay aims to illustrate the fundamental questions that, in the dialectological and sociolinguistic framework, have engaged and engage the communicative space of those Italo-Albanian communities that, having arrived in different migratory waves between the 15th and 18th centuries, have created a new linguistic and cultural facies of some southern Italian regions. After having illustrated the current distribution of the Albanian-speaking communities, some dialectical phenomena have been examined from a diachronic and diatopic perspective, in support of the hypothesis that each Italo-Albanian community is the result of re-combinations of groups from different origins from their very first arrival on Italian soil. Moreover, aspects that demonstrate how arb\uebreshe varieties are characterized today by the outcomes of the centuries-old contact with the Romance varieties will be taken into consideration. These outcomes indeed have determined a greater convergence between the original...