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Greek authors calling Arvanitic a variety of Albanian

Lukas Tsitsipis

See titles of Tsitsipis 1981 ("Albanian speech communities in Greece"; 1983 ("Albanian speakers of Greece"); 1995 ("Arvanitika (Albanian)")...

G. Tzavaras

Co-author of Trudgill/Tzavaras (1977), see title: "Albanian-Greeks"

G. Babiniotis

• Synoptiki historia tis ellinikis glossas, p. 41: "αλβανόφωνοι Ελληνες [...] ένα ιδίωμα της Τοσκικής". Note that Babiniotis uses "Η Αλβανική" throughout, not "οι Αλβανικές γλώσσες", implying single-language unity of Albanian including Arvanitic.

Eleni Botsi

An Arvanite from Vilia, Attica. Online dissertation (in German).

• (2003:8): "ihr archaischer, griechisch-albanischer Dialekt" ["their archaic, Greek-Albanian dialect"])
• (2003:27): "Diasporadialekte [des Albanischen] [...] sind Zweige des Toskischen wie das Arvanitika, das Tschamische, das Italoalbanische etc." ["Diaspora dialects (of Albanian) [...] are branches of Tosk, such as Arvanitic, Cham, Italo-Albanian etc."]

Petros Furikis (1934)

("Η εν Αττική ελληνοαλβανική διάλεκτος". ['The Greek-Albanian dialect in Attica'])

Greek census of 1928 and 1951

("albanophone") (Botsi 2003:97)

International linguistic literature calling Arvanitic a variety of Albanian

ISO 639

According to [1], Arvanitic (identifier: aat) is classified in ISO 639-3 as a member of the "macrolanguage" Albanian. "Macrolanguage" is an intermediate category between a language family and a single language with several dialects. According to [2] it is defined as "clusters of closely-related language varieties that, based on the criteria discussed in 4.2.1, can be considered individual languages, yet in certain usage contexts a single language identity for all is needed [...] a transitional socio-linguistic situation in which sub-communities of a single language community are diverging, creating a need for some purposes to recognize distinct languages while, for other purposes, a single common identity is still valid".

Peter Trudgill

Trudgill (2004:5): "the indegenous Albanian-speaking minority in Greece [...] Linguistically, there is no doubt that the language they speak is a variety of Albanian" Trudgill 1976/77 ("Albanian dialects of Greece")

Brian Joseph

Joseph (1999) (1999:4) "a brother [...] to now-standard Albanian within the Tosk group of Albanian dialects". (1999:3) Arvanitic is part of "the range of diversity within the varieties of speech and language that constitute the whole of Albanian" The use of the name "Shqip" exclusively for "Standard Tosk Albanian" (as opposed to the whole of Albanian) in the graph on p.4, reproduced in Arvanitic language, is marked by Joseph himself (1999:3) as nonstandard terminology!

Hans-Jürgen Sasse

• Sasse 1985 ("albanische Mundarten Griechenlands" ["Albanian dialects of Greece"])
• Sasse 1991 ("Albanian language relics in Greece")

Walther Breu (1985, 1990)

Haebler (1965) ("albanische Mundarten von Salamis" ["the Albanian dialects of Salamis"])

Weitere Hinweise bei Botsi (2003

21).

Literature calling the medieval settlers Albanians

• Poulos 1950 ("εποίκησις των Αλβανών εις Κορινθίαν")
• Jochalas 1971: ("Über die Einwanderung der Albaner in Griechenland")
• Trudgill, passim; Botsi (2003: 20-22 and passim, with further literature.)
• Babiniotis, Lexiko ("Αρβανίτες [...] απότερης αλβανικής καταγωγής Ελληνες")

Greek literature calling modern Christian Arvanites "Albanians"

Ältere gr. Autoren:

• Neroutsos 1888, zitiert in Botsi (2003: 19): "Die [...] angesiedelten Albanesen [...] nennen sich Arbërë und Arbënorë" ["The Albanians settled (i.e. in southern Greece) call themselves Arbërë and Arbënorë"]
• Paschidis, Athanasios (1879): Οι Αλβανοί και το μέλον αυτών εν τω Ελληνισμώ ['The Albanians and their future in the Greek nation']. Athen.

Greek sources calling Muslim Albanians "Arvanites"

Numerous 19th-century demotic texts, especially "kleftika tragoudia" and historical ballads ([3])

• "Τα παλληκάρια του Μοριά κ’ οι έμορφαις της Πάτρας
  ποτές δεν καταδέχονταν πεζοί να περπατήσουν,
  και τώρα πώς κατάντησαν σκλάβοι 'ς τους Αρβανίταις"
• "Αρβανιτιά μας πλάκωσε, θέλει να μας σκλαβώση.
  - Ας έρτουν οι παλιότουρκοι, τίποτε δε μας κάνουν
  Ας έρτουν πόλεμο να ιδούν και Σουλιωτών τουφέκια ..."
• "εχάλασε τόση Τουρκιά, σπαΐδες κι’ Αρβανίταις."
• "Αρβανιτιά την πλάκωσε 'ς του Δημουλά τον πύργο.
  Γιώργαινα, ρήξε τάρματα, δεν είν' εδώ το Σούλι.
  Εδώ είσαι σκλάβα του πασά, σκλάβα των Αρβανίτων.