Social:Istrian Albanian

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Short description: Extinct Gheg Albanian dialect of Istria
Istrian Albanian
Istra Albanian
Native toCroatia
RegionIstria
EthnicityIstrian Albanians
Extinct19th century[1]
Indo-European
  • Albanoid
    • Albanian
      • Gheg
        • Northern
          • Northwestern[2]
            • Istrian Albanian
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologistr1247[3]

Template:Albanians Istrian Albanian is an extinct variety of Gheg Albanian that was spoken in the village of Katun in the area of Poreč, Istria.[1][4][failed verification][5]

History

From the 13th to the 17th century the depopulation of the Istrian Peninsula prompted the Republic of Venice to repopulate the region with settlers, which among others included Albanians and the Albanian language.[6] The coalescence of the various dialects spoken by the settlers led to the formation of the Istrian Albanian dialect. The only surviving text of the dialect was written by the local scholar Pietro Stancovich in the 1830s. Stankovich recorded a version of the Parable of the Prodigal Son and a vocabulary list of the dialect.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Simmonds, Lauren (11 May 2023). "A Brief History Of The Extinct Istrian-Albanian Language". https://total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/istrian-albanian-language/. "...the Istrian-Albanian language ”died” in the nineteenth century" 
  2. "Glottolog 4.6 - Istra Albanian". https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/istr1247. 
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Istra Albanian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/istr1247. 
  4. "Albanian language - Dialects". Britannica.com Inc.. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/12542/Albanian-language?anchor=ref604153. Retrieved 2 March 2012. 
  5. Giuseppe Vidossi (1945) Alle porte orientali d'Italia - dialetti e lingue della Venezia Giulia (Friul e Istria) e stratificazioni linguistiche in Istria Di Matteo Bartoli, Giuseppe Vidossi · 1945
  6. Fine, John Van Antwerp (2006-03-02). When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans: a study of identity in pre-nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the medieval and early-modern periods. University of Michigan Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-472-11414-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=wEF5oN5erE0C&pg=PA118. Retrieved 2 March 2012. 
  7. Altimari, Francesco (2011). "Analisi di alcuni manoscritti con testi e lessemi sull' albanese dell' Istria". Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. http://www.albanology.com/pdfs/Kongresi_2011/Abstracts_2011.pdf.