Çamërisht

Albanian

Etymology

From Çamëri (“Chameria”) + -sht (adj. suffix); Çhamërisht.[1]

Adjective

Çamërisht m (feminine Çamërishte)

  1. Cham dialect
  2. Tosk Albanian subdialect (close related to Lab and Arbëreshë). Spoken by Cham Albanians, an ethnic Albanian minority in the Epirus[2][3] region of northwestern Greece.[4][5]
  1. Flas Çamërisht. ― I speak Cham (language).
  • Çameria f (“the Chameria”), Çameri f (“Chameria”)
  • Çam m (“Cham”), Çame f (“Cham”)

References
  1. Fjalori elektronik shpjegues FESH 1.0 (Albanian online dictionary)
  2. L'étude Euromosaic. "L'arvanite/albanais en Grèce"(English: 'The Arvanite/Albanian in Greece' / German: 'Der Arvanit/Albaner in Griechenland'), year: 2006.
  3. See Hasluk, 'Christianity and Islam under the Sultans', London, year: 1927.
  4. "Badlands, Borderlands: A History of Northern Epirus/Southern Albania", Tom Winnifrith, Duckworth, year: 2002, London, page: 219
  5. Winnifrith, Tom (2002) Badlands, Borderlands: A History of Northern Epirus/Southern Albania‎, London, UK: Duckworth, →ISBN, page 219
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