Arbanasi dialect

The Arbanasi dialect is a dialect of Gheg Albanian that is spoken in long-standing diaspora communities of Albanians in Croatia. Its speakers originated from the region around Bar, Montenegro (Albanian: Tivari) as well as the nearby Kraja region, and moved to Croatia in the early 18th century. In the former, Albanian is no longer spoken by large numbers of inhabitants.

It is notable for a number of divergent developments as well as preservations of certain archaic features of Medieval Gheg Albanian. Slavic Croatian influences are present, as are Romance influences from Italian and Venetian.

The dialect may also be called the "Dalmatian dialect" of Albanian in some older publications.

Non-standard imperatives : "art!" for the imperative of vij ("to come", likely derived from the root of the past tense erdh- and/or the past participle ardhur, while the present tense is a partial borrowing from ancient Latin). In Standard Albanian, this would be "eja!"

Romance influence is seen in the use of constructions of bëj ‘do’ + infinitive.

The infinitive is constructed in the standard Gheg fashion using me ("with").

Arbanasi speakers have assimilated a large number of former Chakavian Croatian speakers who settled among them historically.

Arbanasi speakers are usually bilingual in Croatian, and historically they were trilingual, also speaking the Venetian language.

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