Old Albanian manuscript or a forge ?

Doubts about the originality of the Albanian manuscript from 1210 are
shed by dr.Ardian Klosi who retains himself as one of the best
Albanian linguists and who says that he could have done in 4 months
what dr.Ahmeti did in 4 years.

Refering to the only phrase from this manuscript known to the public,
dr.Klosi says that every single word is strangely written.

("Mee nihemmen zze dessirnnee e phorte t' Lummnummitt ZOT e mbaronjj
n'Vitte MCCX dittn ee IX t' Mmarxxitee".


THEODOR SSCODRAANNITTEE)


Dr. Klosi says that the word 'phorte' was never written by any author
with 'ph' but 'f' even in Latin were this word is borrowed from.

The groups 'nd', 'ng', 'mb' were not yet assimilated at that time
into 'n' and 'm' in Geg, so why do we find 'nihemmen' instead
of 'ndihmën'? Even later Geg authors have used 'nd', 'ng', 'mb'.
In the other hand if the author writtes 'n' instead of 'nd' he should
writte 'm' instead of 'mb' thus not 'mbaronj' but 'maroj'.

Dr. Klosi adds that the double vocals in the meaning above do not
make sense since no one of them is in any such position to be a long
vocal.

Dr. Klosi also says that it is strange that the author uses 'ss' for
Modern Albanian 'sh' and 'xx' for 's'. If the author was going to
copy the Italian model he should have used 'sc' for Modern
Albanian 'sh'.


Any other comments ?

Alvin E.