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For the alphabet formerly used in the Caucasus, see Caucasian Albanian script. The Albanian alphabet ( Albanian: alfabeti shqip) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters: [1] Capital letters.
Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots invented the Caucasian Albanian script in the early 5th century after creating the Armenian script.Painting: Maggiotto (1750–1805). According to Movses Kaghankatvatsi, the Caucasian Albanian script was created by Mesrop Mashtots, the Armenian monk, theologian and translator who is also credited with creating the Armenian and—by some scholars—the Georgian ...
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.
Caucasian Albanian language. 6th–8th century AD. Developed into Udi [1] Caucasian Albanian (also called Old Udi, Aluan or Aghwan) [2] is an extinct member of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It was spoken in Caucasian Albania, which stretched from current day south Dagestan to Azerbaijan. Linguists believe it is an early linguistic ...
The alphabet was cut into type by the Austrian punchcutter Alois Auer as early as 1851. Theodhor Haxhifilipi, also known as Dhaskal Todhri ( Elbasan, c.1730–1805), was a teacher from Elbasan, who is credited as an inventor of an original Albanian alphabet. The Todhri script, as is called because of him, according to Kostandin Kristoforidhi ...
The Vithkuqi alphabet, also called Büthakukye or Beitha Kukju after the appellation applied to it by German Albanologist Johann Georg von Hahn, was an alphabetic script invented for writing the Albanian language between 1825 and 1845 by Albanian scholar Naum Veqilharxhi. [1]
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.
The Elbasan alphabet is a mid 18th-century alphabetic script created for the Albanian language Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, [ 2]: 3 also known as the Anonimi i Elbasanit ("the Anonymous of Elbasan"), which is the only document written in it. [ 2]: 3 The document was created at St. Jovan Vladimir's Church in central Albania, but is preserved today ...