Preservation of Albanian language in the conditions of the Albanian-Greek geographical bilingualism through the oral literature of Çamërishte Cover Image

Ruajtja e gjuhës shqipe në kushtet e gjeobilinguizmit shqiptaro-grek, nëpërmjet krijimtarisë gojore të Çamërishtes
Preservation of Albanian language in the conditions of the Albanian-Greek geographical bilingualism through the oral literature of Çamërishte

Author(s): Elvis Bramo
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Semantics, Philology
Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë
Keywords: diaspora; arvanit; bilingual; geobilingualism; virtual; real; semantic; Greek words; Turkish words; lexicon;

Summary/Abstract: This speech brings arguments that the difficult historic and political conditions where Albanians have lived, especially, in Çameria, from Konispol to Prevezë, the oral folkloric composition, made possible that the Albanian language to be spoken and be developed in the level of spoken language, but also to be preserved from assimilation by the Greek language. Arvanit Diaspora, otherwise, the Arber settlements that from the XVI century or earlier in entre island Greece and historically the Albanian population within the Greed stare, have had their share of troubled history. In these known conditions, the folklore created for centuries, songs of the rites and important ceremonies of Albanian traditional life, together with folk narrations, have played an important role in preserving the beautiful Albanian word, striking expressions, quotes, simple and natural figuration, generated and smoothed down through time from born speakers of the mother language. In this speech, we will try to highlight that the Albanian word, at the folkloric texts, came clean, stricken and the unit-sentences and phrases are forwarded according to the syntax of verse, that differs from that of prose. The conception of many folk songs and their delivery, states that it knew a free usage climate during the period of Pashallëk of Janina, when, according to the historians of the court of Ali Pasha coexisted the Greek illuminist movement and the spiritual resurrection of Albanians.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 37.1
  • Page Range: 141 - 152
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish, Albanian, Greek, Modern (1453-)