Re: [tied] Two native scripts for Albanian!!

There are also some Greek-based characters and the inventors' aim was clearly to devise a phonetic (one sound -- one letter) script for Albanian. The following story sheds some light on those efforts:

http://www.frosina.org/speeches/albalphabet.shtml

Piotr

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From: Danny Wier

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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 9:29 AM

Subject: [tied] Two native scripts for Albanian!!

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

I just came across this. Apparently Albanian has been written in something besides Latin, Greek or Arabic. These letters look mostly a priori with some Latin influence; one is modelled after cursive script. How did these arise and whatever happened to them?

~DaW~