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The Albanian alphabet is based on the Latin one, and it consists of 36 letters:
| Letters: | A | B | C | Ē | D | Dh | E | Ė | F | G | Gj | H | II is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. History The letter I derived from the Greek iota (Ι, ι). It stood for the vowel /i/, the same as in the Etruscan alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek) /j/ (as English Y in YOKE) was added. In Semitic, | JJ is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. History J was originally only a capital letter, therefore, some people still write their names as Jsabel, Jnes instead of Isabel, Ines in the German-speaking world, and in Italy, in pre-modern use one also some | KThe eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. The Semitic sound value /k/ was maintained in most Classic as well as Modern Languages, although Latin ab | LL is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. History The letter L is derived ultimately from the Semitic Lamed which stood for the phonetic value l as did the Greek letter Lambda Λ (upper case) or λ (lower case), as well as the equivalent | LlIn Spanish and Catalan, the Ll combination stands for the sound // (a palatal /l/). In Spanish it is pronounced /j/ in many regions, or more rarely //. In Albanian, the position is the reverse of Spanish, with an Albanian written Ll having a standard /l/ | MM is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. History The letter M represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound [m] in Classical languages as well as the modern languages. It derives its shape from the Greek Μ or μ. Semitic Mem originally pictu | NN is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Semitic Nun was probably the picture of a snake; the sound value of the letter was /n/ as in Greek, Etruscan, Latin and all modern languages. Greek name: N, Ny. November represents the letter N in t | Nj | OO is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. In Greek (Omikron), Etruscan and Latin O stood for the vowel /o/. Although Semitic 'Ajin was used in some alphabets to transcribe [o], the sound value was usually consonantic: [?/] (as the Arabic letter cal | P | Q | R | Rr | S | Sh | T | Th | U | V | X | Xh | Y | Z | Zh |
| X-SAMPA: | a | b | ts | tS | d | D | E | @ | f | g | J | h | i | j | k | l | l_e | m | n | n^ | O | p | c | 4 | r | s | S | t | T | u | v | dz | dZ | y | z | Z |
Note: The vowels are shown in bold. to the pronunciation of the letters (146KB OGG Vorbis file. Click for help with ogg files).