Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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Local Albanian Alphabets
The Albanians have adopted the Greek and Latin alphabets, and adapted them to their language with some modifications, addition of diacritical marks, as in e for instance, and combinations of two consonants (ll, rr, gj, zh, nj, sh, xh, and so forth). Since the Congress at Monastir in 1908, the Latin alphabet (with the aforementioned modifications) has been adopted officially.
In the last century, however, there existed in Albania three local alphabets.
(1) The Elbasan script, of 53 letters, employed mainly at Elbasan (Central Albania) and at Berat, south of Elbasan.
(2) The Büthakukye alphabet, a script of 32 characters, said to have been invented about the middle of the last century by an Albanian called Büthakukye.
(3) The Argyrokastron script, consisting of 22 signs, employed at Argyrokastron (in Albanian, Gjinokastri), in southern Albania. A noble
