[AdmSmith]

... and according to http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/oldest.html the Albanian language was not written down until about the 15th century AD...

[AdmSmith]

... an http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_indoeuro.html says that Albanian has been written in the Latin script since 1909; this replaced the Arabic script.

[RightWhale]

That is about when some of the modern languages appeared as such in written form as literature. Might have to do with that Gutenberg and his movable type.