You are doing a wonderful job Martin documenting protecting and expanding this beautiful and important language to the world 🇦🇱🇮🇹

pershendesim te gjith Arbereshet e; Ukraines Kroacies Italies Argjentinies dhe pershendes Arvanitet e; Bulgaries Greqies Romanies etj......

Respekt për zotin Martin ju jeni Martin de rada i shekullit 21. Përqë te Arbreshët gjuha standarde përse . Zonja Ledi zonjë une rrallë pajtohem me një njeri 100% por me ju nê këtë emision dakordohem me ju 101% Respekt zonjë. Edhe ne njëmend duhet të jemi shumë faliminderues popullit Italian që nuk na kanë dashur të na asimilojnë sikur sllavët e grekët.

Well done Martin 👏

Të urojë suksese në jetë MARTIN ZOTI TË BEKOFTË PËR KONTRIBUTIN QË PO JEP PËR GJAKUN TONË ARBËRESHË

Respekte martin.ju jeni drita e kombit Shqiptar.🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

Martin je I madh Te lumte Urime

Duhet te marrim shembull Nga Arbereshet si nga traditat e bukura qe Kane miresjellja gjuha etj etj eshte mrekullia e shqiperise dhe mburrja jone jane Arbereshet

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Përshëndetje Martin! Do ishte mirë që edhe Greqia të njohë gjuhën arbëreshe, sot arvanite, se vërtet gjuha arbëreshe/arvanite po shkon drejt zhdukjes. Kalofshi mirë!

My family escaped Albania (from Leskovik and Gjirokaster) in 1949 and went to Ioanina, Northern Greece as refugees. They spoke Tosk. They made it to the US in 1961. My mother was 9 when they fled Albania. Because she was schooled in Greece, she only knew how to speak Albanian, not read or write it. My grandparents and other relatives never attended school, so they also could only speak it. My father was also schooled in Greece. When my grandparents died, I rarely heard Albanian except for my fathers records and cassettes. But he died young and his records and cassettes were tossed. My family learned English and either spoke that or Greek, since there were few Albanians around and many Greeks here in NYC. I think I met my first Albanian in my 20’s and I couldn’t understand him. Now I have many Albanians in my city and still can barely understand them 😔 But I understand about 75% of what you spoke! I cried a little. I can also understand a good amount of Arvanitika, but there are hardly any Arvanitika speakers around anymore. I don’t know what language I learned from my family - some form of Tosk, with Greek, and Arvanitika added, which reflected their journey in life. I wish I had others who could speak it and help me to learn it better. I have no children, so no one to pass it on to, but it was my first tongue that my mother and grandmother sang to me in. It was the language my father tucked me into bed with at night and told me silly stories and sang to me in. And it’s a language that stirs my heart and makes it beat with joy, aching sadness, and pride.

Faleminderit shumë për këtë punë z. Martin❤

He is speaking Albanian like an Italian does I have relatives that are born and raised in Italy that speak like him. Old arbëresh after Ottoman invasion must’ve sounded different but it’s just amazing they kept their language after nearly 600 years we truly are very tough people.

Rrespekt, vetëm perpara. E mrekullueshme gjuha arberishte.

Sa bukur, urime per emisionin. Urime Martinit 👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Të falemnderit Martin dhe komunitetit Arbëresh që na kujtuat neve shqiptarëve mos harrojmë kush jemi. Të përulem (falem) deri në tokë.

O man this is incredible. I wanna learn every word. Good job and god bless you 🐐

Bravo te qofte.

Your are an angel! You are maybe rescuing a whole culture and a whole language history. I hope you know you are BIG! It will may take a while but many many people will be thankful! ❤️🇮🇹🇦🇱❤️

Bravo Martin!

Good job my cousin 🙏🏼

Te lumte Martin ti je njeri dashur

Martin this is a very interesting and I am noticing, vast point of view shared between Arbereshe and Arvanites ‘speakers’. Although it is so interesting for me to notice that these dialects do have many ancient sounding words in comparison to the Albanian that I know. However, I would like to give you a perspective, an example starting with myself and adding family members who have been born in the UK. I was born in Tirana to two Gheg speakers, I learned the written dialect: Letrare added with some Gheg from my family that speak 100% Gheg dialect. Everyone I meet in Albania and from Albania in other countries tell me that I speak very clear in a way seemingly understood by everyone(Tosk and Gheg), in south they mostly assume I am an Albanian from Kosove, mid and North they identify I am from out of Alb. It is apparent to me that even though I am extremely fluent, the fact that I have adapted a native english accent has made it extremely hard for me as an Albanian born person to not have a slight english accent when speaking Albanian whether I am speaking Letrare (from Tirana) or Gheg words/phrases. Again I notice those born here have slight english accents when speaking albanian no matter how fluent they are. So I would like to form some questions based on this logic. 1. Is it possible that within the generations, accents have been added to Arbereshe speakers as they became fluent in Italian in the same way happens to me and others in the UK? I assume if my descendants had no contact with Albania ‘the country’ apart from me and others who spoke like me in the UK, Albanian would sound further away from the Albanian I learned as a child, also due to my assimilation with gjuha letrare and my Gheg background. We have therefore already created a different dialect and added an english sort of accent to our Albanian. Thus, I propose this can explain some differences between Arbereshe and Arvanites to Albanian. Do you agree this may have happened generation after generation more and more? 2. Gheg and Tosk are very different in dialect, however, I think it is impossible to call them different languages, it is obvious they are from the same branch. However this otherness I am nuancing from Arbereshe and Arvanites is not new, this exists in Albania v Kosovo, Albania v Maqedons and Veri v Jug. Is it possible that this otherness in speech and ‘accent’ is something that is inherent in Albanians? There is also a lot of competition from city to city, town to town. Can this possibly be deduced as something that is a part of who we are, due to our Besa traditions of seeing people outside of our fis as potential competitors? I see people with Tosk accents judge Gheg accents (possibly due to the written language being tosk) and Gheg speakers assume their dialect is the ‘original’ Albanian because of Enver Hoxha’s attempt at minimising Gheg influence in society. Do you believe Arbereshe and Arvanites reluctance to identify as albanian speakers may also derive from some sort of socio-political disagreements? (Such as no ottoman influence on the language etc) 3. Luckily I grew up in the UK as my first experience as a foreigner or immigrant. I did not have any typical stereotypes attached to me growing up as my friends and their parents did not know much about Albanians. However, is it possible that this reluctancy to claim Albanian and Arbereshe as the same language of Tosk and Gheg, because of certain discriminations faced by our people in countries that knew of them and may have formed some stereotypes of them? Could this explain why early Albanian immigration may have led to communities assimilating as much as possible? It seems (from outside) as though the more they accepted their Italian/greek citizenship the more they lost their connection to their Albanian land. (This is not minimising how beautifully the heritage has been cherished however). And to me it seems as the only reluctance is to claim a citizenship outside of the place they currently live (as I do see how distinct the Arbereshe are from native Italians) 4. Finally, a final question, is it possible that the religious ties that Arbereshe have, have also influenced them somehow? A saying goes, an Albanian’s religion is Shqiptar. I would love to find out more about traditions that Arbereshe and Arvanites hold that are not in keeping with abrahamic faiths, and any overlap they may have with Albanian paganism that has managed to survive throughout all of the foreign invasions and religious influence. Such as the equinox and Gjama e burrave (funeral rituals) etc. Finally, apologies if I am not 100% correctly informed, I only learned about the Arbereshe around 7 years ago and am yet to visit, but cannot wait! Therefore, I was wondering, if you know, have any DNA tests been recorded from all of these populations to record overlaps with Albanians? Sorry for the long message, I am crazy for anything remotely Albanian as I am super interested in my roots and the history of my ancestors.

Respekt

Arberesh is extremely similar to arvanit dialect in greece which is unfortunately falling into oblivion

Loved it! ❤️

Unë mendoj që më së miri është që literatura të jetë në shqip dhe arbërisht

Çfarë janë këta gazetarë kështu? Ë ë ë ë. Flisni mirë se latë nam. Si gjysmakë. Gjithsesi rrespekte për Martinin.

Great job Martin 😍😍

Arbresh e un linguaggio davvero interessante

Zonja Shamku qenka nje thesar për ne👏

Martin je tu bo ni pun te mrekulushme

Aq drejt e shqip që foli zonja,por ramo këto njerz nuk i don por atij duhen lëpirsa që i cojn vota

Respekt pafund Martin♥️

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yucharistis (ευχαριστις) comes from the greek word eucharisto, which means thank you!!

Një arbëresh(shqiptar) dhe një shqiptare(arbëre) që i do shumë arbëreshët(shqiptarët)!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Did you speak purely arberesh during this interview? Or did you try to adapt just to make it easier for them?

Nje emision shume i bukur, urime gjuhetares dhe Martiniy oer kontributin. Mos u merrni me shtetin se eshte i paafte por si popull i nje gjaku te mbajme gjalle biseden ne shqip cfaredo lloj ngjyre dialektore.

For my ear there is a slight Dutch sound in the Albanian spoken by tne panel. Did not expect that.

Respect

e vetmja mundesi eshte tju bejme Abetaren atyre sipas shqipes se tyre

Nuk pajtohem me Martinin kur thote se eshte kunder prurjeve te shqipes. Per faktin se gjuha arbereshe nuk eshte e levruar mire si gjuhe, eshte teper e limituar dhe e thjeshtuar si ne komunikim e lexim. Huazimet ndihmojne ne plotesimin e saj, te zhvillimit dhe kuptueshemerise ndaj dialekteve tjera shqipe, e si rrjedhoje i jep me shume dobi, vlere e rezistence si gjuhe. Perndryshe gjuha arbereshe po vanitet, po largohet dita dites nga trungu dhe nga dialektet tjera neper Itali, derisa ne nje kohe jo fort te larget te behet e padobishme e te zhduket fare. Ky ritem i fundit per te huazuar nga shqipja mund te ndihmoje per te perafruar dialektet me njera-tjetren ne aspektin e perkohshem te pakten. Ne 600 vjet nuk ka patur asnje riformatim dhe per mendimin tim gjuha arbereshe ka pak nevoje te rinjohe rrenjet e saje. Keshtuqe nuk duhet pare ne aspektin negativ e te tharte ashu si shpeshhere Martini ben te kuptoje.

URIME programi, Me FAT. Duhet te formohet nje Fjalor Arberisht ngaqe shume fjale origjinale me siguri jane ruajtur dhe ne duhet ti mesojme

Po,pse ju gazetare e perdorni fjalen angleze suport,kur shqip eshte perkrahje ,shume irrituese nga ana juaje ju gazetare,...?!

Nani perdoret akoma ne jug 😀

''Hora'' eshte fjale greke qe do te thote vend. ''Hora e Arberesheve'' , dmth ''Vendi i Arberesheve''. nje pjese e mire e Arbersheve emigruan ne jugun e Italise nga Greqia sot (se aso kohe nuk kishte Greqi) , kryesisht nga Peloponezi qe aso kohe quhej More (prandaj dhe kenga e tyre , ''Moj e bukura More.. etj etj) dhe ne te folmen e tyre Arberishte, kishte edhe fjale greke..sic psh kjo Hora / qe dmth vend, apo ''Haristis'' qe tha Martini ne fund, qe dmth ju ''falenderoj'''.

Arbereshet duhet te mesojne shqip standart sic mesohet kudo ne Shqipëri.....as ne Shqipëri nuk mësohet dialekti ne shkolla

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If you want the real Arberesh. People you need to go to northern Calabria. There are lots of nice Arberesh villages where the language is spoken daily