It is interesting that between 17 there was an era of enormous orthographic diversity when the Albanian language was written with as many as 10 different alphabets. It was later agreed to use Latin with the addition of two letters ë and ç. For a while, both were written in the Turkish version of the Arabic alphabet, in Cyrillic, and some 'domestic' alphabets, most of which are now unknown to the Albanians themselves.

Originally, tosk was written in the Greek alphabet, while gheg was written in Latin. Standard literary Albanian is based on the Tosk dialect. Gheg is mostly spoken in the north, while longing is more widespread in the south of the country. It consists of two main dialects - gheg and tosk. Albanian has the status of an official minority language, mostly in Italy, Romania, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, and other Balkan countries.Īlbanian belongs to a separate branch of the Indo-European language group. The official language of this country is Albanian, and about 2.7 million citizens have declared that Albanian is their mother tongue, and Greek, Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Romani are also spoken. In addition to Albanians, who are the majority population, Macedonians, Greeks, Serbs, Roma, and Montenegrins also live in Albania as national minorities. The capital of Albania is Tirana, and about 2.8 million people live in the country and they have one of the lowest birth rates in the world. It borders Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, and Greece, and extends to the Adriatic Sea. The Republic of Albania is a country in Southeast Europe. I hope this article will help you in that mission. If you are planning to visit Albania or have a friend, partner, or relative who is natively from that interesting country, learning Albanian Alphabet is a good thing to do if you want to show you respect him or her.

Italian spelling alphabet