The Beitha Kukju alphabet was created between 1825 and 1845 by Naum Veqilharxhi (1797-1854) a lawyer and scholar from Vithkuq, a village in the Korçë region in southern Albania. The name of the alphabet is a corruption of the name Vithkuq. This alphabet was part of Veqilharxhi's promotion of the Albanian National Awakening movement, and he saw it as a way to avoid the religious associations and divisions of the Latin, Greek and Arabic alphabets. Beitha Kukju is also known as Vithkuqi or Büthakukye.
Details of this alphabet first appeared in Evëtori Shqip Fort i Shkurtër (The most Useful and Concise Albanian Alphabet), a primer published by Veqilharxhi in 1844-5. This was distributed in the Korçë region, later in Berat, and proved popular. Veqilharxhi also produced a number of other books in his alphabet, but few survive.
Download an alphabet chart for Beitha Kukju
Source: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17316-n4854-vithkuqi.pdf
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Information about the Beitha Kukju alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vithkuqi_alphabet
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Виткутьское_письмо
http://www.rbardalzo.narod.ru/4/alb.html
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/vithkuqi-a-lost-albanian-alphabet-rescued-by-a-design-student/
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17316-n4854-vithkuqi.pdf
Beith Kukju / Vithkuqi fonts
https://notofonts.github.io/vithkuqi/
Information about Naum Veqilharxhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Veqilharxhi
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