Editing Euboea (section)

==Demographics==

The population of the island, according to the census of 2001, was 198,130, making it the second most populous island of Greece. As a whole the Euboeans share a cultural identity similar to that of the people in the rest of [[Central Greece (geographic region)|Central Greece]] and speak a [[Varieties of Modern Greek|southern variety]] of [[Greek language|Greek]]. In the southern part of the island there are [[Arvanites|Arvanite]] communities. Until the 1970s there were still monolingual speakers of Arvanitika in southern Euboea. As of the late 20th century, in southern Euboea there were about 60 villages inhabited by Arvanites.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sasse |first1=Hans-Jürgen |title=Arvanitika: the long Hellenic centuries of an Albanian variety |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |date=1998 |issue=134 |page=54 |doi=10.1515/ijsl.1998.134.39 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl.1998.134.39/html }}</ref> [[Sarakatsani]] and [[Vlachs]] could be found mainly in the mountainous areas in central and northern Euboea respectively, but nowadays they have abandoned the nomadic way of life and live permanently in the towns and villages across the island.