Elbasan Letter Ke

It is the Elbasan letter for the k sound.

Elbasan letter ke belongs to a historical Albanian alphabet. In transliteration, Latin k represents its sound; the match does not imply a shared historical origin.

The Elbasan Gospel, a handwritten Albanian Christian text, is the manuscript associated with the alphabet’s creation in the mid-18th century. That places 𐔏 in a particular writing tradition, not as a separate emblem.

Why was the Elbasan alphabet created?

It was made to write Albanian Christian text.

That purpose is tied to the Elbasan Gospel, a handwritten text produced at St Jovan Vladimir’s Church and preserved in the State Archives in Tirana. Within an Albanian word, 𐔏 spells the k sound.

Which scripts are historically connected to Elbasan?

It belongs to a wider history of Albanian writing.

Elbasan, Vithkuqi, and Todhri are historical alphabets for Albanian. Their shared language context does not establish that one descended from another.

Some Elbasan letter shapes may reflect Greek or Cyrillic influence; that does not prove that 𐔏 descends from either script. By 1909, Albanian writing had shifted to the Latin alphabet, so 𐔏 belongs to historical-script use rather than everyday modern spelling.