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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Alphabet used in early 19th-century Albania</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vellara%27s_correspondence_in_original_Albanian_alphabet,_1801.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Vellara%27s_correspondence_in_original_Albanian_alphabet%2C_1801.jpg/220px-Vellara%27s_correspondence_in_original_Albanian_alphabet%2C_1801.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Vellara%27s_correspondence_in_original_Albanian_alphabet%2C_1801.jpg/330px-Vellara%27s_correspondence_in_original_Albanian_alphabet%2C_1801.jpg 1.5x, 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Signed by Vilaras, Vokopolje, Berat, 1801<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Vellara script</b> or <b>Vellara alphabet</b> is one of the original <a href="/wiki/Albanian_alphabet" title="Albanian alphabet">Albanian alphabets</a>, encountered for the first time in the early 19th century. It is named after the <a href="/wiki/Greek_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek people">Greek</a> doctor, lyricist and writer <a href="/wiki/Ioannis_Vilaras" title="Ioannis Vilaras">Ioannis Vilaras</a> (Jan Vellarai in Albanian),<sup id="cite_ref-SF_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SF-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the author of a manuscript where this alphabet is documented for the first and so far the only time.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ioannis_Vilaras">Ioannis Vilaras</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vellara_alphabet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ioannis Vilaras"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vilaras studied medicine in Padua in 1789 and later lived in Venice. In 1801, he became a physician to Veli, son of <a href="/wiki/Ali_Pasha_Tepelena" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Pasha Tepelena">Ali Pasha Tepelena</a> (1741–1822).<sup id="cite_ref-Merry2004_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Merry2004-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vilaras is remembered today primarily as a modern Greek poet, non-native Albanian speaker but fluent, according to <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Pouqueville" title="François Pouqueville">François Pouqueville</a>, who also describes him as bright. Vilaras spent time in southern <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shuteriqi1976-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_manuscript">The manuscript</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vellara_alphabet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The manuscript"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vellara-alphabet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Vellara-alphabet.jpg/220px-Vellara-alphabet.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Vellara-alphabet.jpg/330px-Vellara-alphabet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Vellara-alphabet.jpg/440px-Vellara-alphabet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="694" /></a><figcaption>Vellara alphabet letters with corresponding values from Albanian Latin alphabet.</figcaption></figure> <p>The manuscript of the work was donated to the <a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Nationale" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliothèque Nationale">Bibliothèque Nationale</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> (supplément grec 251, f. 138-187) in 1819 by François Pouqueville (1770–1839), French consul in <a href="/wiki/Janina" class="mw-redirect" title="Janina">Janina</a> during the reign of Ali Pasha. Pouqueville was aware of the value of the work, noting: "Je possède un manuscrit, une grammaire grecque vulgaire et schype qui pourrait être utile aux philologues" (<i>I possess a manuscript, a vulgar Greek and Albanian grammar which could be of use to philologists</i>), but chose not to publish it in his travel narratives. Pages 137-226 contain the material in Albanian.<sup id="cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shuteriqi1976-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pages 137-138 contain a list of <a href="/wiki/Proverb" title="Proverb">proverbs</a> in modern Greek and Albanian. Pages 138-187, in two columns per page format, contain the collection of grammatical notes both in Greek and Albanian. These bilingual grammatical notes, dated 1801, were designed no doubt to teach other Greek-speakers Albanian. On page 187, there is a list of names of living things. Page 191 starts the Greek-Albanian <a href="/wiki/Phraseology" title="Phraseology">phraseologies</a>. On page 217, there is a mini-dictionary with trees names, human body parts, and vegetable names. The alphabet shows in page 219. Appendixed to the grammatical notes is also a letter dated 30 October 1801, written in Albanian in Vellara's handwriting from the village of Vokopolë, south of <a href="/wiki/Berat" title="Berat">Berat</a>, where the physician had been obliged to follow Veli during the latter's military campaign against <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_of_Berat" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibrahim of Berat">Ibrahim of Berat</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_alphabet">The alphabet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vellara_alphabet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The alphabet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The alphabet comprises 30 letters. It leans towards the <a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a>, and less the <a href="/wiki/Greek_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek script">Greek one</a>, with some special characters for Albanian's particular sounds. Albanian alphabet's "<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_affricate" title="Voiceless alveolar affricate">c</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_affricate" title="Voiced alveolar affricate">x</a>" are covered by a single letter ("x" is never found in Vellara's writings). Today's "<a href="/wiki/%C3%8B" title="Ë">ë</a>" is represented by "e", and "<a href="/wiki/E" title="E">e</a>" by "<a href="/wiki/%C3%89" title="É">é</a>". There are no letters for today's <a href="/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)" title="Digraph (orthography)">digraphs</a> "<a href="/wiki/Ll" title="Ll">ll</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Rr_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rr (digraph)">rr</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Zh_(digraph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zh (digraph)">zh</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Close_front_rounded_vowel" title="Close front rounded vowel">y</a>". Instead, "y" is substituted with "<a href="/wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close back rounded vowel">u</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close front unrounded vowel">i</a>". Today's "<a href="/wiki/Palatal_nasal" class="mw-redirect" title="Palatal nasal">nj</a>" is represented by a <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a> letter.<sup id="cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shuteriqi1976-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vellara_alphabet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vilara's letter signed by him as <span title="Albanian-language text"><i lang="sq">"30 Oktomvrit 1801 Vagopolja, mik tëndë Jatroi Vellara"</i></span> (October 30, 1801, Vokopolja, your friend Doctor Vellara), shows that the alphabet was known and used by other people at that time. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Albanian_National_Renaissance" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian National Renaissance">Albanian National Renaissance</a>, the script was made known to the Albanian circles, first published in 1898 by the <i><a href="/wiki/Albania_(periodical)" title="Albania (periodical)">Albania</a></i> magazine in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shuteriqi1976-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SF_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SF-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vellara_alphabet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SF_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SF_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9vo9AQAAIAAJ"><i>Studime Filologjike</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Akademia_e_Shkencave_e_RPSSH" class="mw-redirect" title="Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH">Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH</a>, Instituti i Gjuhesise dhe i Letersise. 1964. p. 198. <q>Në lidhje me këtë, E. 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Emni i tij i vërtetë asht Joannis Vellara...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Studime+Filologjike&rft.pages=198&rft.pub=Akademia+e+Shkencave+e+RPSSH%2C+Instituti+i+Gjuhesise+dhe+i+Letersise&rft.date=1964&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9vo9AQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVellara+alphabet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFElsie1995" class="citation cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Elsie" title="Robert Elsie">Elsie, Robert</a> (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.elsie.de/pdf/articles/A1995ElbasanMs_Fig.pdf">"The Elbasan Gospel Manuscript ("Anonimi i Elbasanit"), 1761, and the Struggle for an Original Albanian Alphabet"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Südost-Forschungen</i>. <b>54</b>. 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The eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Orthodox tradition in Albanian writing"</a>. <i>Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies</i>. <b>15</b>: 20–35. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1179%2Fbyz.1991.15.1.20">10.1179/byz.1991.15.1.20</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0307-0131">0307-0131</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Byzantine+and+Modern+Greek+Studies&rft.atitle=Albanian+literature+in+Greek+script.+The+eighteenth-+and+early+nineteenth-century+Orthodox+tradition+in+Albanian+writing&rft.volume=15&rft.pages=20-35&rft.date=1991&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1179%2Fbyz.1991.15.1.20&rft.issn=0307-0131&rft.aulast=Elsie&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fjournals%2Fbyzantine-and-modern-greek-studies%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Falbanian-literature-in-greek-script-the-eighteenth-and-early-nineteenthcentury-orthodox-tradition-in-albanian-writing%2FC90E7DF5234E71E0D0E69CEB722A730D&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVellara+alphabet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Merry2004-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Merry2004_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBruce_Merry2004" class="citation book cs1">Bruce Merry (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-lr20SuvfIC&pg=PA457"><i>Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature</i></a>. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 457–458. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-30813-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-30813-0"><bdi>978-0-313-30813-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Modern+Greek+Literature&rft.pages=457-458&rft.pub=Greenwood+Publishing+Group&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-313-30813-0&rft.au=Bruce+Merry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DQ-lr20SuvfIC%26pg%3DPA457&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVellara+alphabet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shuteriqi1976-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Shuteriqi1976_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDhimiter_Shuteriqi1976" class="citation cs2">Dhimiter Shuteriqi (1976), <i>Shkrimet Shqipe ne Vitet 1332-1850</i>, Tirana: Academy of Sciences of PR of Albania, pp. 151–152, <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/252881121">252881121</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Shkrimet+Shqipe+ne+Vitet+1332-1850&rft.place=Tirana&rft.pages=151-152&rft.pub=Academy+of+Sciences+of+PR+of+Albania&rft.date=1976&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F252881121&rft.au=Dhimiter+Shuteriqi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVellara+alphabet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vellara_alphabet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bibliothèque nationale de France. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110002087/f101.item.r">Supplément grec 251</a></i>, Département des manuscrits. 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