123 years from the publication of “Alfabeer of the Albanian language”

Today, we remember the publication of the Albanian-language Alphabetare”, which was published on February 27, 1897. To understand the importance of this publication, we must go back to time and history.

We remember that the Albanian, which has been documented so far, has been written since the 15th century with the Latin alphabet, complete with five specific letters. It was written in Greek and, after the Turkish occupation, even in the Turkish-Arab alphabet. The next course to follow is to create the original alphabets with limited distribution.

Since the beginning of Turkey's Movement for Liberation, the alphabet issue came to the fore: without it, it could not be talked about the Renaissance of the Albanian people. So at Sami Frasheri's initiative, Jani Vretos and Pasko Vasa, on February 27, 1897, was published in Istanbul “Albanian-language Alfabeter”.

It was one of the most important activities of Stembo II Albanian patriots, who founded “on October 12th 1879 The Association of Printer of the Albanian”, cultural society aimed at promoting the development of culture in Albanian and putting it into service the issue of national liberation from Turkey.

With the alphabet, he met one of the basic requirements for the spread of domestic propaganda and opened the way for the first serious publications of our National Renaissance.

In its bay, great Muslims, such as Brothers Frascher, prominent Catholics, such as Pasko Vaa Shkodrani of Orthodox and homelands as Jan Vreto - was thus the model of cooperation between religions in the ministry.

However, the issue of the Albanian alphabet would eventually be settled only with the Library Congress, which met on November 14, 1908, where a new alphabet in Latin was drafted. It is the alphabet that all the English writers use to this day.