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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 ...
The new Elifbaja shqip by Rexhep Voka in 1911. The Elifba alphabet (Albanian: Elifbaja, from Ottoman Turkish: الفبا, romanized: Elifbâ, Elifba Albanian: ئەلیفبایا ئارابوَ-شڅیپ) was the main writing system for the Albanian language during the time of the Ottoman Empire from 14th century to 1911.
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.
While primarily designed for the Albanian language, Plisi may be used to type almost any language using the Latin alphabet. Plisi is another alternative layout based on the U.S. mechanical keyboard and layout and supplemented with adaptations from the German T2 and QWERTZ Albanian layouts.
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 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.
November 22 is now a commemorative day in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia, as well as among the Albanian diaspora, known as Alphabet Day (Albanian: Dita e Alfabetit). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Prior to the Congress, the Albanian language was represented by a combination of six or more [ 3 ] distinct alphabets, plus a number of sub-variants.
Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets. Romance languages that use this letter include Catalan, French, Portuguese, and Occitan, as a variant of the letter C with a cedilla.