Proper noun
Arvanitika
An archaic form of the Albanian language spoken by a linguistic minority in Greece.
Synonyms: Arvanitic, Arvanitika Albanian
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)”. Source: Internet
" Arvanitika is in a state of attrition due to language shift towards Greek and large-scale internal migration to the cities and subsequent intermingling of the population during the 20th century. Source: Internet
"Botsi’s chapter on Arvanitika also gives much useful information but contains some unfortunate errors. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language. Source: Internet
Today they refer to themselves not as Albanians but as Arvanites, and call the language they speak not Albanian but Arvanitika. Source: Internet