Claim: Shqip are ethnic Albanians living outside southeast Europe.
Evidence: Another population , who became the Arbëreshë settled in southern Italy and form the oldest continuous Albanian diaspora producing influential and many prominent figures.
Albanian -LRB- shqip -LSB- ʃcip -RSB- or gjuha shqipe -LSB- ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ -RSB- , meaning Albanian language -RRB- is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages , spoken by over five million people , primarily in Albania , Kosovo , the Republic of Macedonia , and Greece , but also in other areas of Southeastern Europe in which there is an Albanian population , including Montenegro and the Preševo Valley of Serbia.