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This dissertation analyzes processes of linguistic obsolescence and efforts for maintenance of the Arbresh language, an Albanian dialect spoken as a native language in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, since the 1480's, when Piana was founded by a group of Albanians who migrated to …

Use of the Occitan language in southern France has steadily declined over the past eight centuries, as part of a societal shift toward French. This shift has culminated in the current endangerment of Occitan (UNESCO, Ethnologue). Native speakers are aging rapidly, and according …