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To: RightWhale

Perhaps,

Albanian has been written with various alphabet since the 15th century. Originally the southern Tosk dialect was written with the Greek alphabet, while the northern Gheg dialect was written with the Latin alphabet. They have both also been written with the Turkish version of the Arabic alphabet. In 1916 an official standard based on Gheg came into being, but in 1945 the standard was reformed and based on Tosk.

Albanian has also been written with two other scripts: Elbasan and Beitha Kukju, local inventions which appeared during the 18th and 19th centuries but were not widely used.


http://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm

check out the scripts at the ref.


34 posted on 03/27/2005 12:05:55 PM PST by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith

On another note, Mother Teresa's entry with photo in my Webster's mentions that she was Albanian from a part of Albania now known as Macedonia. Politics runs deep in the language.


35 posted on 03/27/2005 12:13:50 PM PST by RightWhale (50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
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