Mos u llav Rosalba, ti e flet shumë mirë gjuhën arbëreshe !! Kapirtëm gjithsej !! Edhe na e fjasmi ashtu, pra duhet të zbulomi fjalët e vjetra çë uzarjen ahìrna tatmadhrat tanë !! Kem t'i mësomi të rinjvet gjuhën tonë !! (Non ti preoccupare Rosalba, lo parli molto bene la lingua arbëreshe !! Abbiamo capito tutto !! Anche noi altri arbëreshë parliamo così, perciò dobbiamo riscoprire le vecchie parole usate un tempo dai nostri nonni !! Dobbiamo insegnare alle nuove generazioni la nostra lingua !!) Shumë të fala, Bendhiti.
As an Albanian who grew up speaking gheg Albanian at home, standard Albanian at school, exposed to Italian TV and movies, I can understand her almost 100%. If I had not been exposed to Italian, it would be extremely difficult to understand the meaning of her sentences.
It is the other way around. Both Albanian (shqip) spoken in the balkans and arberesh spoken in Italy and Greece have common ancestry so to speak. The ancestral language in the balkans was called arberesh.
Shqip is just how the Albanians of the Balkans call the language. But Albanian is a branch of indo european that has 2 dialects, gheg and tosk (which includes Arberisht)
ru-vid.com29EtyBtxDOc?si=K_kaSKflEy3O8r7x The Coptic community today are mostly in and around Alexandria Egypt. A city founded by Alexander the Great arguably. A city older than Cairo.