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A second Albanian invention.
Also known as: Büthakukye script
The script devised for Albanian in the nineteenth century, one of several competing alphabets before standardisation.
Writes Albanian in a purpose-designed alphabet with a bicameral distinction.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
One of at least half a dozen alphabets devised for Albanian before a Latin-based orthography was agreed, so the language's script history is a record of a contest rather than a succession.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
An alphabet of about forty letters with distinct capital and small forms, unrelated in shape to the Latin and Greek alphabets.