Is Albanian similar to Greek?
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Arvanitika is the most similar to Greek of the 4 dialects.
Albanian, Tosk is the official language of Albania. It is also spoken in Greece.
But the Arvanitika dialect of Albania spoken in Greece in particular is heavily influenced by Greek and partially intelligible with Tosk.
Albanian, as Greek is Indo-European. But that is a very broad language category including over 400 languages. The similarities between Arvanitika Albanian and Greek seem to be mostly from the two languages coexisting with each other but linguistically they don't seem as similar. Especially because they are not categorized under the same branch of the Indo-European tree. Greek and Albanian are different enough to be categorized separately. And picture it this way. English and Spanish are also Indo-European. The family is big.
The absolute best source for any and all language information is the Ethnologue. My friends who are linguistics majors love it and turned me on it. You can spend hours browsing it. Have fun! http://www.ethnologue.com
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