Demetrio Camarda ( Arbërisht: Dhimitër Kamarda; 22 October 1821, in Piana degli Albanesi – 13 March 1882, in

Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ...

) was an

Arbëreshë Arbën/Arbër, from which derived Arbënesh/Arbëresh originally meant all Albanians, until the 18th century. Today it is used for different groups of Albanian origin, including: * Arbër (given name), an Albanian masculine given name * Arbëresh ...

linguist, patriot of the Arbëreshë, and publisher of Albanian folklore, with scientific knowledge also in the field of Indo-European linguistics. Camarda, along with Girolamo De Rada were the main two initiators of the Italo-Albanian (Arbëreshë) cultural movement in Italy during the second half of the 19th century. He was the follower of the literary work already performed by

Jeronim De Rada Girolamo de Rada ( Arbërisht: ''Jeronim de Rada''; 29 November 181428 February 1903) was an Arbëreshë folklorist, journalist, lawyer, playwright, poet, rilindas and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of th ...

. His main work, ''Test of Comparative Grammar on Albanian Language'' is the first scientific work of comparative historic study on the topic.''Saggio di grammatologia comparata sulla lingua albanese'', by Demetrio Camarda

and ''Appendice al saggio di grammatologia comparata sulla lingua albanese'', by Demetrio Camarda

. He made an important contribution with the publication of ''The Albanian general alphabet'' in 1869.

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Linguists from Italy Arbëreshë people 1821 births 1882 deaths People from Piana degli Albanesi Albanian-language writers {{Italy-writer-stub