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November 22, the day that keeps us together!

2025-11-22 17:17:00, Opinione Lutfi Dervishi

November 22, the day that keeps us together!

If there is a miracle worth believing in, it is the survival of the Albanian language.

Our language has spent centuries defying every empire and every alphabet that has been thrown before it.
The Catholic priest wrote it in Latin, the Muslim poet revived it in Arabic, the Orthodox preserved it in Greek and sometimes Cyrillic letters. One people, three religions, four alphabets… and a language that never surrendered.

Then came November 22, 1908, the day when Albanians decided to write alike. Not to please anyone, but to become a nation. The Congress of Manastir was not the act of a single group, but a triumph of unity: Muslims, Orthodox, Catholics, sitting at the same table, choosing the future before any religious differences. (As the Renaissance man Vaso Pasha said in 1878: the religion of the Albanian is Albanianism)

And among them, the often forgotten voice of women was heard, like Parashqevi Qiriazi, who proved that language is a national issue, not just a "man's job."

Albanians became the first Muslim-majority nation to abandon the Arabic alphabet and adopt the Latin alphabet. It was not simply a literary choice...

The fact that the Albanian language survived for more than two thousand years in the face of Latin, Greek, Church Slavonic, Ottoman, and Arabic is not simply historical, it is character and evidence of a resilient genius.

Therefore, today, when we celebrate the Alphabet, the greatest honor is not the ceremonies, but our daily duty: to write Albanian, correctly, cleanly, carefully... at least as well as an artificial intelligence program can write it.





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