Beitha Kukju was an Albanian who invented a script used for the Albanian language in about 1840, called the Beitha Kukju script after its inventor. However, this script was not widely used and was overwhelmed by Greek, Arabic and Latin scripts, the latter becoming the official one in 1909. Albanian (gjuha shqipe IPA ) is a language spoken by about 6 million people, primarily in Albania, Serbia including Kosovo, Montenegro, and the Republic of Macedonia but also in other parts of the Balkans, along the eastern coast of Italy and in Sicily, as well as by a significant diaspora in... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language, which is the language of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans. ...

Another original script used for Albanian was Elbasan script of the 18th century. This script did not have much influence either.

External links

• Omniglot, a guide to written language - Albanian writing systems