Can Arbresh and Balkan Albanians understand each other

Arbëresh (arbërisht) is the Albanian language spoken by the Arbëreshë people in Italy. In this video, we will take a look at how similar Arbëresh and Albanian spoken in Albania are with Martin who is from Santa Cristina Gela (Sëndahstinë) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in Sicily, Italy, and Klajd who is from Tirana Albanian. *************** Link to the book Martin wrote: Martin's YouTube channel: @ARBERESH Martin's Masters thesis: ëresh_Language_mixing_translanguaging_and_possible_solutions_to_issue_of_maintenance Martin's Soundcloud:   Video of Martin talking about Arbëresh: *************** Please contact us on Instagram if you have any questions or feedback: Albanian is a unique languages that occupies an independent branch within the Indo-European language family. It is an official language in Albania and Kosovo and has official minority status in Italy, Romania, Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia. The Albanian language has a wide range of dialects, with two major groups of Gheg and Tosk. Within the Tosk group, Arbëresh  is one of the five sub-dialects, with the other ones being Northern Tosk, Labërisht, Çam, and Arvanitika. Arbëresh derives from a medieval variety of Tosk and retains many features of medieval Albanian.