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and not having an alphabet of their own languages, stay like that, and the presupposition and hope from three thousand years so far (as far as history is known) to be enlightened and civilized by using the languages and writings of their neighbors, proved to be useless...Without having, neither wanting, anyone better than the others between us, that will come after us, we pray the God of Life, to bless our existence, the
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delegates headed by Fishta was elected, and, after three days of deliberations, they resolved to support two alphabets: a modified form of Sami Frashëri's
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All enlightened and civilized nations, are enlightened and civilized from the writings of their own languages. And every nation, which does not write its own language, and does not have writings of its own language, stays in darkness and barbarian. Even
Albanians, while not writing their own language
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The three main alphabets under discussion were the
Istanbul alphabet devised by Sami bey Frashëri, the Bashkimi alphabet supported by Gjergj Fishta and his Bashkimi literary society of Shkodra, and the Agimi alphabet of the Agimi literary society, represented by Ndre Mjeda. A committee of 11
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with some enrichment. The pamphlet "Etudes sur l’Albanie et les
Albanais", originally written in French and published in Istanbul in 1879 was one of the initial publications. Following the re-publication in French in
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Instituti i
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522:), or "Frashëri" Alphabet in reference to Sami Frashëri, which was widely used by most of the Albanians for almost 30 years. It was one of the three candidate alphabets at the
843:(in French), vol. 37, Tirana: Académie des sciences de la République Populaire d'Albanie, Institut d'histoire, Institut de linguistique et littérature, p. 20,
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