Hey I am the Arberesh speaker in this video. I have a channel were I do regularly videos about the language. If you'd like to know more subscribe to my channel kzread.info

@MatteoGravino

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I enjoyed your video. I'm from Ururi, a small town in Molise (Italy) of Arbrereshe culture and language. I moved to Rome since I started the University and then I moved to UK for work. Although it's long time that I don't speak Arbrereshe, I could understand a number of words and contexts in your video, expecially by listening your voice rather than reading the text. It was fun, thanks for sharing the video.

2 жыл бұрын

@@MatteoGravino you're welcome Matteo! I'm also in London, we could meet.

@kristjanprenga8213

2 жыл бұрын

Hello,I am from north of Albania and i understand almost all of words that you spook in Arbresh,for example 'ngee shut?' in dialect Geg ,means 'e qeshtu?' ,it means, so lets do ,another word was 'te qeghë te jot kushrin' ,in albanian (Geg dialect again) means,'te qoj te jot kushrin? ,another word was, 'se ti jarren' ,in albanian 'se ti erdhe' ,maybe when i writie this word looks diferent ,but when i listen is so similar,So next time i suggesiet to take an Albanian that speak in Geg dialect because i think our dialect is more similar with arbesh language,(most of arbesh was from Morea ,before going to sud of italy,and Morea was populated with Dardan(northen albanian today) ,Të përshendes dhe te uroj suksese!🇦🇱🇨🇮

@wonderfulhumanbeingwithagr6381

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, you speak perfect English dayum 😱

2 жыл бұрын

@@kristjanprenga8213 interesting observations. The equivalent of erdhe in arberisht is jerdhe…jarrën is a different verb

My wifes family is from Contessa Entellina, Sicily where they speak Arberesh. A large number the residents moved to New Orleans in the US. They formed the Contessa Entellina society there and celebrate their Arberesh heritage yearly

@jonathanemslander6896

2 жыл бұрын

Wow interesting the amount of hidden old European dialects in the USA. Should be recorded and researched.

@beratmaliqi6158

2 жыл бұрын

So they still speak albanian ?

@sharknextdoor

2 жыл бұрын

@@beratmaliqi6158 po pra 70% kuptohet qe eshte shqip me ca fjale te perziera italisht dhe ca fjale te krijuara si pasoje e harrimit ose te tranformuara si pasoje e transferimit gojarisht .psh Isht nje burr /eshte nje burre /asht nje burr .edhe sot ne veri psh ne mirditoret themi À àsht kush aqe -A ishte dikush atje? Etj etj . Te pershendes

@mihovillmisha9885

2 жыл бұрын

Is vic sciro still alive?

@sharknextdoor

2 жыл бұрын

@@dr.H_Dema te ruajt zoti ! Mos harro kurre rrenjet e Mirdites .Pas Gjergj Kastriotit nuk ka fjale me te madhe se Nana Mirdite ❤️🇦🇱

Im Albanian from Kosovo (North Albanian) of Gheg dialect ,and i can understand him very clearly every word, same as i do understand Arvanitaki of Greece. Next time please try with Gheg dialect which is more perserved with the archaic albanian. Tosk its very influenced by foreign languages and has lost the authenticity long time ago, and the guy with Tosk dialect didnt understood alot of words which i could understand them almost all! Peace be upon you all brothers and sisters, may our nation be blessed by God. Long live Albanians and the "Shqip language of the God" as our ancestors always said🇦🇱🇽🇰 shkip gluh e zotit

@ylliriaalbania326

Жыл бұрын

Keta flasin tosk jo geg

@albarmy1

Жыл бұрын

You guys don't even understand each other 😅

@denissaliaj9459

Жыл бұрын

If ghegs understand a lot of things we can understand almost everything

@albarmy1

3 ай бұрын

@MightyEagle-vu8te ha muut ha, une i kuptoj fare mire e flasin dialekt tosk te paster, pirdh se lirohesh ata vete e thone qe flasim tosk, pse pjesa tjeter e shqiperise nuk ka qen e pushtuar, ju nga kosova jeni budallenj pa histori dhe kulture dhe doni te beni sikur keni dicka po asgje skeni jeni kot

Really interesting format here-it was smart to have Franc & Roberto focus on the respective parts of Arbëresh that play to their strengths as speakers of Albanian & Sicilian

@mamymimma

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed :)

I really like this new format🤩!!! And speaking of Maltese, maybe we can have this experience with Italian and Arabic speakers, that would be interesting for me as a native arabic speaker with knowledge of romance languages. Thanks a lot for all your efforts Norbert👍

@askadia

2 жыл бұрын

As an Italian, I would also love to see this done for Maltese!

@Ereo85

2 жыл бұрын

Maltese vs Sicilianu and North Africa arabica sounds good.

@ltubabbo529

Жыл бұрын

@Dovyeon French hasn't influenced Maltese much

34:46 my exact thoughts, I speak both Albanian (standard and my central Albanian dialect) and Italian natively and I still struggled to understand some sentences. The Sicilian ones especially, what a lot of people don't realize is that while it is true we call Sicilian and other varieties in Italy "dialects" they aren't real variations of the Italian language, they are their own separate languages that independently evolved from Vulgar Latin, Italian is simply a literary language which evolved from Old Tuscan that later became tye standard and official language of Italy once it unified. Sicilian is hard to understand for Italian speakers who aren't from the extreme south of Italy.

@ShishiSonson

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, the so called Italian dialects are actually languages. They would be dialects if the evolved from Italian, but actually they were born before Italian itself. Using the 'dialect' word is somehow belittling their history, but it is common use also for Italians as well.

@mareksicinski3726

2 жыл бұрын

Some of them ar e more slearare

@aplsharusha

2 жыл бұрын

Il sardo è una lingua, l'italiano è un dialetto!!!

@RPM1776

2 жыл бұрын

Is that you Perëndia?

@maryocecilyo3372

2 жыл бұрын

@@aplsharusha it changes to "italian" for more nationalism and unite all italian who speak different languages.

Loved this…more Arbereshe content please!

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dron/R3_XQKpZSJ4qQJ-CxxMdZQ.html

As a Sicilian, I loved this experiment! I tried and guess, sometimes I got it right and I certainly learned new Sicilian words!

2 жыл бұрын

which did you get right?

@widmawod

2 жыл бұрын

@ I got all of them except for fighatjarti, stjavukat and pitit (I didn't know the Sicilian words for these two) and postë. It's interesting that I got maghanatat because I noticed that Arbëreshë gh matched with Sicilian L, but the word I thought of was an Italian one (that maybe exists in Sicilian too) which is malandato, though it doesn't mean cursed.

When there are no direct cousin languages, at least, Albanian has a daughter in Italy.

@DreuxVince

2 жыл бұрын

Many daughters, I'd say. There are some other Arbërëshë communities in other parts of Italy and I guess they differ (maybe not so greatly) because of the distance

@lix6028

3 ай бұрын

Also in Greece.

Wow amazing. The Albanian picked up a lot of vocal words immediately in the first sentence, but the Sicilian had a harder time deciphering!

@Helmuesi911

2 жыл бұрын

Because arbereshe is based from an ancient Albanian dialect.

@msmrmoonyalt

2 жыл бұрын

@@Helmuesi911 not ancient more like medival dialect like 1300s-1500s during the ottoman empire taking over the Balkan era

@elmrisbarbieri8456

2 жыл бұрын

Because thay are 2 totally different languages while albanian is essentiqlly the same

@Nitelife30

2 жыл бұрын

​@@msmrmoonyalt absolutely right.

@eduardjakaj4542

2 жыл бұрын

@@msmrmoonyalt Gegnishta she Toksishta ( gege e toske ) Are ancient not medival! They the oldest Albanian dialects Gege was spoken in northern part of Albania and tosk southern part of Albania including part of Greece

This was so much fun and interesting! Thanks for the effort to make this video and the appreciation of the languages! :)

Me as an albanian from Kosovo it was truly interesting to watch this video. 🇽🇰♥️🇮🇹🇦🇱.

@hondazxr2303

2 жыл бұрын

Kosovo is Serbia 🇷🇸☦

@Kosovoalbaner06

2 жыл бұрын

@@hondazxr2303 Why you disturbed me? Don't waste time i don't have time to see your dummy comments

@hondazxr2303

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kosovoalbaner06 Косово и Метохија Српска земља🇷🇸☦👍🏻😎🍻

@Kosovoalbaner06

2 жыл бұрын

@@hondazxr2303 idi ludo sprski. U re insane

@ylliriaalbania326

Жыл бұрын

​@@hondazxr2303 In your dreams

I’m Albanian from Dibra e Madhe and we have heavy accent like Albanians from Tetova, Gostivar, Kumanova. The way we say “fughatiarti” in Dibran dialect is “Fuge” which is to “throw away” very interesting

@albotiger7268

2 жыл бұрын

@ Anonymous Jo shoku I thojm FUGE. Tëj më deftojsh mo si folet Dibrançe?

@vitamind3119

2 жыл бұрын

@@albotiger7268 Të fala prej Kërçove o Dibran , gjuha shqipe pret si shpata .

@Shqipegrl

2 жыл бұрын

@ Anonymous sa besoj nga ana e Shqipnis (fshatrat e dibres sidomos si, psh. Maqellarë) i thon disa fjale me “gj” ne vend te “g”, po ki esht tu than per Dibren e madhe (e rrethi i Pologut) qe thojn “fuge”.

@fluz2222

2 жыл бұрын

@ Anonymous Edhe ne kacanik te Kosoves thuajm Fuge. Ne kaqanik G'jal jo Djal, Gize jo Gjize, jo djath por G'jath.

It is so cool that you give exposure to those endanger languages! It was so fun!

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm very grateful to Norbert

Very cool to hear the languages! My Great Grandmother was Arbëshë, she was born in Vaccarizzo Albanese in Calabria (Cosenza) and her father was born in a neighboring town, San Cosmo Albanese. My great grandfather was from Reggio Calabria.

Bukur bukur ëm pëlqej kjo video shumë.Gjuha shqipe është gjuha e gjuhëve .

Beautiful! I loved this one very much. Thanks Norbert!

Fascinating! My family is from Sicily and I could understand parts of each sentence. I have Always been fascinated with the formation of languages and regional dialects, how communication forms over time based on migration and settlement. Thank you so much for this fantastic format to highlight the similarities and “meshing” of languages. Very fun to watch.

Have you seen the recent Venetian episode yet? 🤓 → kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6yLlZmLZZrRoZs.html

Keep up the good work Thank you very much for the video

Very cool! This was so fun to watch!

Cool Content. I enjoyed watching it. Thank you!

Fascinating, really awesome format! :D

Im from Kosova and first time I heard Albanians from Albania speak our language it almost felt like now hearing Arbresh. In the beginning we would be sitting with friends or family and we struggle to order food at a restaurant. Sometimes it could really get akward as someone would ask something and the other would answer with OK lol. Anyways, took a very short time to fully understand the dialect...You could notice yourself getting by alot better every day..like fluent in a couple of months prolly. Arbresh might be harder to pick up but our ear is not familiar with it at all, so it prolly sounds much harder than it is. I think if an Albanian socializes actively with Arbresh it would take just a few months to have little to no problem understanding almost everything.

2 жыл бұрын

that's true, but it's because the Albanian ends up adapting to Arbresh. This happens in our villages.

@sirairili1570

2 жыл бұрын

@ Do you have, in spoken Arbresh, sounds/vocals like å ä ö? .. In Kosova for example we still use them..

Im a not arbëreshe sicilian, but i speak albanian and seeing this video is absolutely amazing

2 жыл бұрын

thank you Antonio

@antoniomonaco5742

2 жыл бұрын

@ sono siciliano della provincia di Enna però da quando ero piccolo vivo in Toscana. Mi piacciono parecchio le lingue specialmente lalbanese e trovare similitudini fra di loro, per esempio ora sto studiando a fondo il latino per trovare delle origini comuni con l'albanese moderno e ho già trovato molte parole. Ho dato un'occhiata alla maggior parte dei video del tuo canale e devo dire che la cultura e la lingua arbëreshe sono estremamente interessanti. Ciò dimostra che l'integrazione fra popoli sia assolutamente positiva e che le minoranze linguistiche vadano protette in quanto portatrici di valore culturale che è simbolo della storia di un territorio. Nel mio paese si parla un dialetto derivato dalla lingua galloitalica, che è diverso da tutti gli altri, purtroppo questo non viene più usato nella sua forma originale se non dagli anziani e si è quasi perso. Mi auguro che invece si continuino a preservare i costumi e la lingua arbëreshe! Falem👋

2 жыл бұрын

@@antoniomonaco5742 grazie per i commenti

@shqipemalesore2620

2 жыл бұрын

@@antoniomonaco5742 Se sei particolarmente interessato all'influenza Latina nella lingua Albanese,ovviamente hai moltissimo materiale da scoprire come già saprai(i prestiti linguistici sono avvenuti durante la conquista Romana dei Balcani Occidentali).

@antoniomonaco5742

2 жыл бұрын

@@shqipemalesore2620 patjetër edhe kjo qëndron, por disa fjale ndajnë nje origjinë te përbashkët qe nuk i detyrohet influencës romake mbi popullin ilir. Por qe vërtetojnë edhe me teper faktin se shqipja esht njëra ndër gjuhët me te vjetra qe u trashëguan nëpër shekuj. Per shembull gjehet qe parafjalet sipër, jashtë, në, qark, (që nuk esht se përdoret shum por do t thot rreth)kundër, ndër jan te lidhur me parafjalet latine super, extra, in, circa cuntra dhe inter. Fjala burr qe ne gjuhen shqipe do te thote dhe bashkëshorti dhe mashkulli i njeriut në latinishten ka qe te dyte kuptimet e vjeter thuhej Vur qe me pas u shendrrua ne vir, nga e cila fjala buron dhe fjala italiane virile=burrëror. Fjalët qe kan lidhje me luftë jane per tu ven re gjthashtu, per shembull fjala shgjeta =sagitta, shgjetar=sagittarius, shpatë =spada (kjo fjale ka prejardhje greke shpathi). Shqyt= scutum, këpucë =caligae etj Shoqëri, shok, shoqatë= societas, socius, conosociatio Kto nuk jan fjale te huazuara nga italishtja ose nga latinishtja, përkundrazi jan elementet gjuhësore qe patën një zhvillim bashkohor me fjalët latine përkatëse. Edhe ca folje kan lidhje pak a shum te drejtpërdrejt. Për shembull Flas esht e lidhur me foljen latine for, siç dihet ne dialektet shqiptare veriore përdoret trajta me fol per paskajoren. Rrëfej esht i lidhur me fjalën latine refero. Luaj=ludo Mendoj=mendje+oj=mens mentis Besoj=bese+oj = besa esht e lidhur me fjalen latine Fides (B=P=F per arsyet fonetike) ne te kaluren i shqiptohej kështu qe tingëllonte dicka e ngjashme me Bedes. Esht e qarte prejardhja e përbashkët. Dhash=dedi Bërë=Fare (serish B=F) I large =largus( edhe me kuptimin e i gjerë) I ngusht=angustus Fqinj =vicinus Ngrënë =edere Pirë =poto(edhe bibo thuhet por me poto duket me shum) I turpshëm =turpis Vetë =vado Kuptoj/kap=capio Ulerij=ululo Kush=quis(kuis) Esht e çuditshme fakti se cur ne latinisht do te thot pse kurse kur esht quando ne latinisht. Mund te ket i detyruar se njëjtës arsye pse fjala motra në shqipen e lashtë kaloi nga kuptimi i "mëma" ne ai qe ka tani. Ky fenomen gjuhësor ndodh shpesh e konsiston në nderrimim e kuptimit te nje fjale te te njëjtës fushës kuptimore. Shpresoj qe hulumtimi im per origjinat e përbashkëta e shqipes dhe e latinishtes te esht dukur interesante dhe kalofshi mir.

Beddra maaaatri!!! I am sicilian and I understood exactly the same words Roberto did. When I was studying in Palermo the owner of the house was from Piana degli Albanesi. When he was speaking with one of his friends I only understood the numbers... Ahahaha

@Jessi_apo

Ай бұрын

You are albanian

@Astronaut79

Ай бұрын

@@Jessi_apo no I'm italian and in particular sicilian.

This format was perfect for this language, Norbert. Arbëresh has a little bit of both languages and, as Martín well said, its own uniqueness. Great video.

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

It would also work well with Maltese… and probably also Yiddish (with German and either Polish or Hebrew, depending on the variety of Yiddish). Maybe Russenorsk, if there are still people who know that pidgin. There’s also a Greek minority language in Southern Italy that would be fun to try it with.

Hi Roberto! I lived for some years in Taormina, where my grandfather was born (Chico Scimone, who died in 2005). I also wrote a book about its history (Frank Scimone, Taormina Odyssey, Edizioni Greco, Catania, 1999). I have some cousins in Taormina, including the Capuana's of Bel Soggiorno. I never really heard of this dialect, but I speak fairly decent Italian and understand some Sicilian.

grazie ragaci, thxx, faleminderit, very interesting video.

It would be interesting to compare the arbereshe of Sicily with that of Molise, Basilicata and Calabria.

2 жыл бұрын

I have a video comparing it to Calabrian

Only just seen this video but I love the format! Would love so much if there were more videos of two people from unrelated languages translate a language which has elements of both

very interesting video, I'd love to see more like this

Wonderful vidio . Bravo 👏

I follow Martin on Instagram because I found him through Bahador Alast. Furthermore, this is incredibly interesting, and I had heard about Arbëreshë though knew nothing of it. Also, although not a linguist,it’s fascinating to see that it contains much of the Albanian language structure and yet has the Italian essence and accent, so impressive! Përshëndetje and Ciao 😌

Grandma would speak this language to me. Glad to hear it again.

Respekt për punën që e boni. Unë jam nga Kosova dhe foli dialektin Geg. Mua nuk më vjen vështir ta kuptoj Arbërishten as pak.

shum interesante :) bravo !

Really cool video. I'm a little sad that you moved the in-video subtitles to the bottom though, because now I can't read them at the same time as the English subtitles. Ah well. Albanian and Arberesh are beautiful languages, so I'm glad to be able to hear them in this video!

@Ecolinguist

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. :)

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, being able to see both subtitles at the same time was really useful.

I'm italian from abruzzo , my test DNA , have 12 % Albanian.

@sarak6083

2 жыл бұрын

we are family

Very very very interesting format. Absolutely loved it! I think you should do it with Maltese (the only language I could think of, before hearing you guys commenting about it). Maybe Yiddish with German and Hebrew speaker.

This is fascinating to watch and listen to.

That's the kind of stuff internet was made for, educate and unite people! Thank you!

To the word ghordarjën - in albanian we say when we feel disgustet to something we say: me u gërdit - but when you speak it it sounds like 'gordit'. Maybe there is also a context

2 жыл бұрын

the word comes from lurdari in Sicilian

The Albanians are our brothers! Italians and Albanians are brotherhood! FORZA ITALIA Y ALBANIA 🇮🇹🇦🇱💪

Interesting. It would be nice to see some more videos about sicilian

2 жыл бұрын

absolutely

Interesting video

This is a gem!

Btw love the new format Norbert!

Fajnie widziec, ze kanał wciąż jakos egzystuje. Osobiscie licze ze beda jeszcze jakies filmy odnosnie językow słowianskich, albo cos o staroangielskim :)

@ilariomichelini4616

2 жыл бұрын

best youtube image ever, Cristoph

I’m an Albanian I could picked Albanian words like Franc I enjoyed it and I forwarded to a couple of my friends that parents are Albanian and Italian so mixed. Thank you looking forwardto watching more videos like that. Faleminderit Gracie

Ti je King te lumt,vazhdo ashtu

Te kuptoj mire/ Understand you perfectly…. I njejti gjak…. Same blood!!! Proud for you guys!!!!

Faleminderit , interesante dhe shume prekese te degjoj gjuhen time ne nje faze arkaike.

Shumë e bukur gjuha Arbëreshe,ju lumtë djema 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

like this format. I saw a few words from knowledge of other Romance languages but the Sardinian was very understandable. And Arbëresh sounds just lovely. a mix of hard and soft sounds. My languages in order of learning are Scots, English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, to B1 French at school and a wee bit of Russian at uni. Now I'm learning Gaelic. would you consider doing a Celtic languages version. Welsh Breton Cornish... or Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic ?? I am fast becoming a fan of this channel.

As a Southern Italian (but not Sicilian) I don't know how the Sicilian guy didn't pick up the words more easily. "Raggiatu" and "siddiatu" came to my mind in a second. Also where my father is from they say "stìavucchë" for tissue/napkin.

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe where he is from they don’t use it ?

@DreuxVince

2 жыл бұрын

@ I mean, maybe, maybe he isn't that exposed to the various Italian dialects. Awesome video by the way, really loved it and its format

@Glossologia

2 жыл бұрын

@ I'm curious if someone from western Sicily would have understood better

triesa perkthehet me shqip ne tryeze sesa tavoline, gluhe behet barazimi me g-juh ne gegnisht pra g dhe j te lexuara te ndara dhe jo si nje germe e vetme GJ. Do kishte qene me interesante te kishte patur nje njohes te gegnishtes ne kte video sidomos gegnishtes qe flitet ne zones e shkodres dhe jo kosoves sepse gegnishtja e tyre eshte me e perzier.

Urime për emisionin tuaj,👍♥️♥️♥️🙋🙋🙋

Very interesting format, Norbert! I could pick up a some of these: 'Fughatjarti' has a cognate in romanian - 'fugărí' - with the exact same meaning: to shew away somebody to make them go away. Also 'shtrëmbër' is similar to 'strâmb' in romanian, which also means 'crooked /reclined'. In romanian 'a (se/fi) supăra(/t)' has this double meaning (like 'sidjarm' in sicilian and arbërësh) when at the beginning you're mad and right after you're upset.

@lagjescuni5482

2 жыл бұрын

the Albanian and Romanian language contains some similar Peleo Balkan words which are only found in the two respective languages.. this fact has prompted scholars to deduce that the ancestors of the Albanians and Romanians bordered on each other before the arrival of the Avars Bulgars Slavs ect ect

@lagjescuni5482

2 жыл бұрын

however I tell you a curiosity that few know..even the term (vampir) associated with vlad Dracula who was a contemporary of the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg it is a term that is made up of two Albanian words...( Dhampir )dham (“tooth”) + pir (“drinker/drank”) “toothdrinker”

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

@@lagjescuni5482 it comes from a latin word. "Fugare"also exists in Italian, "Fugari" in sicilian.

@lagjescuni5482

2 жыл бұрын

@@esti-od1mz what does the word Fugare have to do with what I wrote??

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

@@lagjescuni5482 I was talking about the comment of the other user...

Excellent programme! Like French Creoles and English Pidgins, here is a language, Arberesh, with Albanian and Sicilian grandparents, that has evolved and developed its own identity. Wonderful! Format is excellent. Loved the respect each of the participants had for the others. By working together, they got the answers they were looking for.

Complimenti!

Bravo qe nuk harroni se çka jeni e prej nga vini.Respekt

Unë jam Amerikan por jetova në Shqipëri për dy vjet dhe kam studiuar shumë pak italishtën. Në 2018 isha në Horen e Arbëreshvet dhe unë isha habitur që shumica e njerëzve flisnin Arbërisht dhe që unë mund të flisja me ata. Duket si shqipja me një theks italian dhe disa fjalë italiane haha.

@spirofarmaku6772

2 жыл бұрын

Areberisht* zotrote

@Skenderbeuismyhero

2 жыл бұрын

@@spirofarmaku6772 rrofsh, nuk e di pse gjithmon shkruaj ashu

@vitamind3119

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skenderbeuismyhero Të fala o Amerikanë prej Zvicre ( Schweiz) Rroft Amerika sa malet e Shqipëris. Shum mir ke shkruajt në gjuhën shqipe . Unë jam shqipëtar nga Maqedonia e veriut ( Nordmazedonien ) por jetoj dhe punoj në Zvicër.

@flowerm7007

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skenderbeuismyhero Arberishtja dhe shqipja jane e njejta gjuhe

@ilirjanxholi7315

2 жыл бұрын

Arbëreshët janë albanishtfolës të rrjedhur nga zona e Epirit të Veriut…Kur vanë në Itali u thanë banorëve vendas se vinin nga Greqija. Piana dei albanesi para disa vitesh quhej Piana dei greci

Awesome! What a reach culture heritage has Europe. I hope we will be able to preserve it and live in peace and learn each other's languages and customs

Never heard of this language before, cool!

@aolbaol2964

2 жыл бұрын

It's older Albanian with italian dialect and some mixed Italian words.. most of today Albanians understand most of it , including my self.. it would have been easier without the Italian dialect that confuses you in listening.

So, as a Sicilian speaker, I recognized almost all the sicilian loanwords in Arbereshe. I would say that even the phonology is close enough to the sicilian one. It is the same as earing maltese: I'm capable to recognize some words, the pronounciation may be similar, but the sense is impossible to grasp. It would be nice if you could invite a gallo-sicilian: their language is more related to piedmontese, but they sound oddly sicilian... Sicilian has itself a lot of words of Gallo-italic origin! Cheers to the arberëshe guy for valuing his roots!

@milotfokusi2124

2 жыл бұрын

I am albnian of Kosovo and live in Belgium. In Belgium are a lot Sicilians . I would like to visit Piana degli Albanesi Greetings 🇦🇱🇮🇹

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

@@milotfokusi2124 come to Sicily! We have a lot of History in common! We even fought the turks alongside Skanderberg. That's why there are some albanian communities in the South: because the king of two Sicilies offered hospitality to the albanian refugees!

@user-wj5yz2pw5t

2 жыл бұрын

@@esti-od1mz Skenderbeg is of Serbian origin.

@sirairili1570

2 жыл бұрын

@@esti-od1mz Greetings. Skanderbeg also came to Italy and helped win an important war. Dont remember exactly the history, but I think it had smth to do with helping the Pope stay in power..do you know? By the way, are sicilians descendents of Etruscans or is that different?

@sirairili1570

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-wj5yz2pw5t The one eyed bum at the square, with a foesaken family, is the one with a Serbian origin, not Skanderbeg.

My grandmother was from a town called Vizzini, province of Catania. She emigrated to Australia in the early 1930s and never spoke Italian. I remember that she called a fork 'bruccetta' ( ce as in English ch) and spoon was 'cucciaredda'. When I visited Sicily I noticed a wide variation in the dialects of the eastern part of the island. I guess the sicilian words in your sentences would have been absorbed from the dialects of towns closer to Palermo. Interesting program. Thanks.

as an albanian speaker, reading the arberesh i felt i shouldve understood more than i did due them looking almost identical!

Pershendetje nga zemra🍀

Të kuptoj shumë bukur. I understand your Arberesh/Albanian, introduction at list… I love the fact that u r English and and speak Arbëresh. Ju dua shumë…. ❤️❤️

2 жыл бұрын

I am a british born Arberesh

That was very interesting

I find this really intriguing as I'm an Albanian American that speak both Albanian and Italian

You should make a video in which there is a comparison of Croatian and Nanas lenguage. Nanas It's an antic population who moved to Italy something like 500 years ago. They live in Molise now and speak an intresting kind of old croatian

@ShishiSonson

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

Bravo Franc, te pershendes

As a person whose mother tongue is Portuguese and who speaks English, French and a little bit of German, I was surprised by how much I could grasp of this language. It sounds like as if somebody merged Italian, Arabic and Albanian, since it bears much resemblance to all of them. An astounding language, I’ll definitely search more about it. Unfortunately, there aren’t many available resources, nor many native speakers of it...

Norbert is spoiling me personally.

Such a beautiful language! It’s interesting to see the connections to both Albanian and Sicilian. While it has the roots in the old versions of these languages, it has definitely developed on its own. However, I might be wrong, but Arbëreshë is also spoken in other parts of southern Italy, which probably have developed in such ways that might be hard to understand the Sicilian Arbëreshë. I was wondering if we can actually refer to those as “dialects” for this language.

2 жыл бұрын

Dialects of arberesh yes but arberesh is not a dialect of Albanian

@lorizahasa8770

2 жыл бұрын

@ yes, that’s what I meant, dialects of arbereshe Thank you.

Cool how Italy has both Greek- and Albanian-origin communities.

@L-mo

2 жыл бұрын

And Germanic and Slavic and Catalan and a bunch of other Romance languages speakers too.

@12_xu

2 жыл бұрын

There are also Franco-Provençal and Croatian communities in South Italy

@qwertylello

2 жыл бұрын

@@L-mo The funniest part is that the Catalan language is spoken exclusively in a port town in Sardinia: Alghero. And the slavic minority is both up north, on the border with Slovenia and in the south, where you can find a small Croatian-speaking community in Molise.

@AloysioWisnu

2 жыл бұрын

And a large part of Arbereshe community in Italy are descended from Albanian people that previously settled Greece, where they are referred as Arvanites. The Arbereshe people that settled Piana degli Albanesi and Santa Christina Gela came from Arvanites community in Morea (Peloponessos peninsula in Southern Greece)

@skenderbegshala3247

2 жыл бұрын

Greek-Albanian-South Italian are brothers in blood

Albanian speakers can understand quite a lot of Arbëreshë especially speakers of Tosk dialect,but I think sicilians couldn’t understand nothing of Arbëreshë

2 жыл бұрын

the other way round is not always true

@rafaelinhos

2 жыл бұрын

@ of course,because Arbëreshë is a language rooted with the past,modern Albanian dialects evolved in this centuries.

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

I understood some words, being Sicilian

@skenderbegshala3247

2 жыл бұрын

Also Gheg speaker can pick up enough of Arberesh.

@curleddoughnuts6857

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but not always, Arberesh language has a lot of Italian influence in their language while we have Latin, Turkish, Greek and Slavic influence, although Latin, Slavic and Greek may be too over exaggerated due to Indo European connection.

Përshëndetje, shpresoj të jeni mirë. Unë mendoj se do të ishte interesante të bëni një krahasim mes gjuhëve Shqip (të dy dialektet) Arbërisht, Rumanisht dhe Siciliane.

Жыл бұрын

dakord

We also use 'fuge' in the albanian dialect spoken in the polog region of north macedonia, which means 'to throw away'

2 жыл бұрын

throw away in arberesh is "rrnar"

@User12345fan

2 жыл бұрын

I have heard that too from my Grandma and I am from the Mat district , just a little northeast of Tirana.

Love it! Pershendetje from USA 🇺🇸

What a nice language.

Oh Bravo sa bukur flet 😊

The first things which came to my mind to compare this kind of mixture are Russenorsk and polka-dot paint :-)

This is hard. But also cool! As an Italian-English-German (and also a bit of french) speaker, I could just get some words similar to italian or french (so I suppose derived from latin), but I could not get about 80% or more =P. Ah! I could pick up Fughatjarti from Italian, actually! it would be in my opinion -> "FUGARE", "fare fuggire", sin. "scacciare". es -> "fugare ogni dubbio" = "to cast away every doubt".

@thedream8838

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto. Fughatjare is the key word in that sentence since, as you also mentioned, it can be figured out from the Italian "fuga", "(the) escape". I had forgotten about "fugare"; I guess I am more inclined to tie "fuga" with "fuggire". Fuggire is intransitive but one can do the switch (fuggire ~~ fare fuggire) on their own if they understand the rest of the sentence ... I guess. In Albanian we say "perze" (accent on the last syllable, both E vowels pronounced as the schwa/lo sceva' sounds we heard in "perce" - "because"[ENG], "perche" [ITA], "sepse", "perse" [ALB] - which was introduced in the story of the one-eyed man), ... Therefore, "Mema perzuri" would be the standard Albanian form vs the Arberesh "Mema fughatjarti". It's interesting that in Arberesh, at least in the variant that Norbert speaks, the past tense of a Sicilian verb, such as fughatjar/fughatjari whether it's spelled this way or differently, is formed by adding the Albanian "i/ti" ending to the whole Sicilian infinitive form, i.e., body + ending of the verb, as opposed to replacing. Addition vs Substitution. Sort of easy for those whose first language is English.

@ilariomichelini4616

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedream8838 thank you for the lenghty reply. I know a little about albanian presence in italy, since I was really interested in dating a girl with Albano Calabro heritage. I don't know why though, I was expecting Albanese to be more similar to italian. I could understand almost nothing XD XD. From your reaction though, I am incline to believe that Arberesh is something on its own.

Bravo djema,duaeni gjuhen e nenes.

I think "maghanat" is malnati (he said gh=L)= litterally "born bad", but it means unfortunate, damned.

@ENDANGERED-LANGUAGES

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@leonardofonseca4598

2 жыл бұрын

Sta idea- questa idea.

@ShishiSonson

2 жыл бұрын

That's cool!

@maxmncs2950

2 жыл бұрын

In Milanese there is also the term "malnatt", but it means evil/wicked

L' albanese è la lingua più difficile che io ho ascoltato, ci sono cittadini albanesi in Italia che parlano bene l' italiano, devo dire che la lingua è strana, non ho capito niente 😂😂😂

fascinating stuff. old languages are both stunning and frustrating.

Many words of the sentence are italian indeed and not sicilian- like "infatti". Arbëresh seems like a creole between sicilian/albanian and standard italian...it's weird hearing it xD

2 жыл бұрын

actually, many of the sicilian words come from 500 years ago when the distinction between sicilian and what's now italian wasn't so strong. For example old sicilian didn't have dd but said l, like bellu not beddu

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

But sicilian itself is really close to italian. That's why some words may sound oddly italian

2 жыл бұрын

@@esti-od1mz for sure, just that 500 years ago the difference was less

@ShishiSonson

2 жыл бұрын

@ You are actually right. I was studying the old Neapolitan and they also used for example 'bellu' and many more ending vowels that then disappeared, making it more different compared to 'italian'.

Actually, in my Albanian Books, it is saying , that only 1000 words are Saved from the Old Albanian Language which we Albanians uses those today, but im really Shocked what i heard , i mean it looks very Old Language, and Very Interesting to hear, I Love my Country History! And Also Thank you For this Video , without i would never know how the Language would’ve be !

I'm not even a fluent speaker in either languages and I found this quite easy to dicefer what's what. Then again I've had many Albanian friends from Kosova, and used to listen to Albanian music back in high school etc.

Grazie Italia e specialmente Sicilia per averci ospitato ed averci regalato villaggi interi. Ormai l’alberesh è una lingua mista con l’italiano e Siciliano. Grazie anche per avere investito nel nostro patrimonio, altrimenti già da mo che saremo diventati italiani 🇦🇱❤️🇮🇹

@doriosmanaj1185

2 жыл бұрын

Gjaku nuk bohet uj kurr

This was really interesting. I was actually able to pick out that "perce ka" bit as being similar to "parce que" (because) in French 😅

@leonardofonseca4598

2 жыл бұрын

Minut- minute.

@curleddoughnuts6857

2 жыл бұрын

In Albanian it’s very similar per se, or per qka,

@leonardofonseca4598

2 жыл бұрын

@@curleddoughnuts6857 interesting, how to pronounce the letter q? Is it like ch in chair ?

@curleddoughnuts6857

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonardofonseca4598 the q is pronounced like ch.

@theduchess3

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonardofonseca4598 per qka is grammatically incorrect (it’s mostly used by northern Albanians on the internet as I see lol). It’s actually për çka (ç is pronounced like ch). Q on the other hand is a sound on it’s own difficult to explain. It’s something between an extremely soft ch and a sh sound.

Interesting. Though I don’t understand Martin’s conservative stance on the Arbereshe from his village. Arberesh is spoken differently in most of the settlements in the south of Italy and therefore it’s hard even for them to understand one another.

2 жыл бұрын

What conservative stance ?

@arrore

2 жыл бұрын

@ Well, I hear you often emphasising how Arberesh is its own language and should be classified that way in order to protect it as a distinct language. That you are somewhat against Arberesh speakers adopting Albanian vocabulary or its elements as a way to standardise the language. My opinion is that the Arberesh is fading away very fast. Times have changed, where communities are a lot more diffused to a larger spectrum than the isolated nature the Arberesh have being part of for many centuries. People are not going to want to learn a language which is not useful even within their own community, where each region has its own way with the Arberesh. In order to preserve the language you’re ought to at least standardise it somewhat to make it useful to the broader community. Then, develop this standard to make it relevant in the present day. In both instances, I think the Albanian language (and authorities) would have to play a role of support. My opinion is that your stance on the matter doesn’t invite such support. You come across as wanting to present your version of Arberesh as a form fitting to many, though you do make distinctions sometimes between the Arberesh of other regions. My personal opinion is that the Arberesh from your area is way too mixed with other languages in comparison to the Arberesh in mainland Italy. Therefore, analysing whether Arberesh should be considered its own language or not shouldn’t be considered on the perspective of the Arberesh of your own area only. You should have made this clear in this video as you are referring to the Arberesh in general when making such comparisons or conclusions, as therefore to say: Arberesh should be considered its own language.

I am albanian from Kosovo 🇽🇰 and i can understand it all. I am so proud of our language. So native and old 🇦🇱

2 жыл бұрын

You understood kaghare me posten, fughatjar, maghanat, burxhetat, lugiçelet?

@Dano-YouTube

2 жыл бұрын

@ of corse! Cause they are so similar to Albanian language today. Especially luga 🥄

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dano-KZread what is the Albanian word for fughatjar and burxheta?

@beratmaliqi6158

2 жыл бұрын

@ burxheta ..PIRUNI in Albanian ....... Luga is spoon.

@curleddoughnuts6857

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dano-KZread I only understood the Albanian words, like Shpin and Kusherite, although the actual Albanian word for neighbour is fqinje and gjiton.

I speak Albanian Gheg Dialect, and I think that understanding Arbrisht is easier for me than someone who speaks Tosk

@Rednblack900

2 жыл бұрын

Lol hooow ?

@tosk2098

2 жыл бұрын

LOL that is no true is actually the other way

@fatjonaselmonaj6742

2 жыл бұрын

I speak albanian with a gheg dialect and understandig the arbereshe language would be easier for me if I could speak tosk.

@albarmy1

Жыл бұрын

I speak ghegh and I find it hard to understand other ghegh speakers let alone arberisht

Arbëresh derives from the Tosk dialect spoken in southern Albania, and is spoken in Southern Italy in the regions of Calabria, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Abruzzi, and Sicily.

@sebials5101

2 жыл бұрын

I also thought that Arberesh is Tosk dialect. but i learned lately that is a Gege and Tosk mixed. there are many words Gege in Arberesh used today, that Toske would not understand, but in Gege we even use today those words.

Io sono stato più volte a casa di alcune Famiglie aFraschinetti e a Platani comunità ovviamente arberesh,, normale che quando loro parlavano in arberesh comprendevo più io le parole che alcuni colleghi calabresi.qui si tratta di terminologie tipiche albanesi che per i cittadini siciliani e Calabresi resterà incomprensibile almeno che loro non lo studiano l arbershesh.Ora che comunicate le frasi tra di voi io comprendo tutto in arberesh dato che anche il mio nome è Arben ☺️👌Omg your english also👌👌clearrrrrrr👍👍👍👍👍