Re: Historic scripts for Albanian: Elsaban and Beitha Kukju

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 19:11:53 CDT

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    Philippe asked:

    > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm
    > shows two historic scripts that have been used to write Albanian (Shqip):
    > - the Elsaban script in the 18th century, which looks like Old Greek for the
    > language Tosk variant. However there are lots of unique letter forms, and
    > mapping to Old Greek is not straightforward.
    > - the Beitha Kukju script invented in 1840 and named after its inventor.

    > Are these alphabets represented in Unicode?

    No.

    However, they are roadmapped for possible future encoding. See:

    http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/

    and look at the range: U+10580..U+105DF.

    --Ken



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