Hi,
I am the writer of http://albaniatourism.info, I am Albanian too. I was made aware today by a friend about the comments here, I don`t know the exact reason of the "c" cedilla, but I would believe it is related to the usage of the same letter in Turkish language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet , representing the same sound "ch". The bases for the Albanian alphabet of today were set in 1865 -1866 (when we were still under Turkish occupation), till then Albanian was written either with latin, greek, slavic or turkish letters. The main guideline for the alphabet was to have one letter per each sound. I have a reference for the history of the alphabet but it is in Albanian: http://books.google.com/books?id=9_gXTda0HS8C&pg=PA191...
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Hi, I am the writer of http://albaniatourism.info, I am Albanian too. I was made aware today by a friend about the comments here, I don`t know the exact reason of the "c" cedilla, but I would believe it is related to the usage of the same letter in Turkish language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet , representing the same sound "ch". The bases for the Albanian alphabet of today were set in 1865 -1866 (when we were still under Turkish occupation), till then Albanian was written either with latin, greek, slavic or turkish letters. The main guideline for the alphabet was to have one letter per each sound. I have a reference for the history of the alphabet but it is in Albanian: http://books.google.com/books?id=9_gXTda0HS8C&pg=PA191...
cool, thanks a lot for the update. Quite interesting.
Regarding the website overall, it's nicely done, keep up the good work.
Cheers