Indo-European family

Arbëresh

c. 1450 CE – today Living

Arbëresh (c. 1450 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Albanian → Albanian → Arbëresh.

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Speakers
100K (100,000)
ISO 639-3
aae

Tosk-derived Albanian of southern Italy and Sicily, from 15th–18th-century migrations; endangered.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Albanianc. 1,000 BCE – 600 CE
  3. Albanianc. 600 CE – today
  4. Arbëreshc. 1450 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Albanian.

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