In Bosnia we use Okean.
In english you have Ocean.
Many languages use that word. Its a loanword.
Doesnt make someone a greek
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There may be Albanians still in Sicily but based on 23andme results it'd seem (due to the high "Balkan" score amongst some people around Palermo area) that a lot of people have ancestors that assimilated too.
Arvanites are 100% Ethnic Albanians, no question about it. They are a population group in Greece who traditionally speak Arvanitika, a dialect of the Albanian language.
How many Greeks have Arvanite ancestry? It has to be a lot.
They should be around 2 million .
Yes is seems so. I have read this data given by Father Antonio Bellushi, an Arbereshi from Italy and by Aristidh Kolja an Arvaniti from Greece.
Arvanites didn't move there. They have always been there.
If we have to trust those weird theories of albanian migrations, and that arvanites are called so because of the place arvana, then they originate from a village in Azerbaijan
That's not only for their merit. Italian state hasn't used the same practices as the greek state did.