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The Albanian alphabet (Albanian: abetarja shqipe) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters: [ 1 ] Capital letters
Vellara script or Vellara alphabet is one of the original Albanian alphabets, encountered for the first time in the early 19th century. It is named after the Greek doctor, lyricist and writer Ioannis Vilaras (Jan Vellarai in Albanian), [2] the author of a manuscript where this alphabet is documented for the first and so far the only time. [3] [4]
The language is spoken by approximately 6 million people in the Balkans, primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. [1] However, due to old communities in Italy and the large Albanian diaspora, the worldwide total of speakers is much higher than in Southern Europe and numbers approximately 7.5 million.
Page from the 1861 Daut Boriçi primer. The Ottoman Turkish alphabet was mainly favored by Albanian Muslims, but also used by some Christians.After being especially used during the Bejte poetry, a primer for the Albanian language in Arabic script was published in 1861 in Constantinople by Mullah Daut Boriçi, a prominent member of the League of Prizren.
The alphabet, like the manuscript, is named after the city of Elbasan, where it was invented, and although the manuscript isn't the oldest document written in Albanian, [3] Elbasan is the oldest out of seven [2]: 4 known original alphabets created for Albanian.
The alphabet of Theodhor Haxhifilipi as shown in Albanesische Studien by Johann Georg von Hahn in 1854. The alphabet was cut into type by the Austrian punchcutter Alois Auer as early as 1851. The Todhri alphabet is an 18th-century Albanian alphabetical writing system invented for writing the Albanian language by Theodhor Haxhifilipi , also ...
Ë is the 8th letter of the Albanian alphabet and represents the vowel /ə/, like the pronunciation of the a in "ago". It is the fourth most commonly used letter of the language, comprising 7.74 percent of all writings. [2] According to other data, it is the most common letter, comprising 10.290% of writings. [3]
The letter combination HJ is present in a few standard Albanian words (without a voiceless velar fricative), but is not treated as a separate letter of the alphabet as it is in Arbëresh. LL, G, GH. The letters LL and G are realised as a voiced velar fricative [ɣ]. The vast majority of these words originate in Sicilian, but the sound also ...