The alphabet of the Caucasian Albanians or Aghbanians, one of the Ibero-Caucasian peoples, ancient and indigenous population of modern Azerbaijan and Daghestan is also called the Albanian alphabet (in addition to that of the modern country of Albania; see Albanian alphabet). This alphabet (with 52 letters) was invented in the 6th century AD on basis of the GeorgianAsomtavruli and was discovered in 1937 by the noted Georgian scholar, Professor Ilia Abuladze; however, the extreme paucity of inscriptions made interpretation difficult. The first reasonably long work in Albanian was discovered on a palimpsest in St. Catherine's Orthodox Monastery on Mount Sinai in 2003 by Dr. Zaza Alexidze; it was an lectionary dating to the late 4th or early 5th century AD, with a Georgian Patericon written over it. It finally confirmed that Albanian was ancestral to modern Udi. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Italic textInsert non-formatted text here This region should not be confused with modern Albania and Albanians (Shqiptarë), who are a separate people from the Balkans, and only share the name coincidentally. ... The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... This article is about the alphabet of the Albanian language. ... This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A palimpsest is a manuscript page, scroll, or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. ... Sunrise on the Mount Sinai View from the summit of Mount Sinai Sinai Peninsula, showing location of Jabal Musa Mount Sinai is the name of the mountain where, according to the Bible, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Lectionary A Lectionary is a book or listing that contains a collection of readings for Christian worship. ... The Udi language is a member of the Caspian (or eastern) branch of the Caucasian languages. ...
Literature
Ilia Abuladze. "About the discovery of the alphabet of the Caucasian Albanians".- "Bulletin of the Institute of Language, History and Material Culture (ENIMK)", Vol. 4, Ch. I, Tbilisi, 1938
The first major attempt at forming an Albanianalphabet was made by Naum Veqilharxhi in 1824 who wanted Albanians to have their own alphabet and not be influences by Greek and Arabic ones.
In November 1908, an alphabet Congress was held in Monastir.
The history of the Albanianalphabet is based on the article by Van Christo [1] (http://www.frosina.org/speeches/albalphabet.shtml) and it is used with permission.
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