Vaccarizzo Albanese (Arbëresh: Vakarici) is an Italian town and comune (municipality) of the province of Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy.

In 1863 its toponym changed adding Albanese (i.e. "Albanian"), due to its origins.

[3] Vaccarizzo Albanian, the Arbëresh dialect of the Albanian language that is spoken in the villages of Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese, in southern Italy, by approximately 3,000 people.

Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained many archaic features of the Tosk dialect, on which the Standard Albanian is based.

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