Native name | Kongresi i Drejtshkrimit të Gjuhës Shqipe |
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Date | November 20–25, 1972 |
Location | Tirana, People's Socialist Republic of Albania |
Theme | One Nation, One Language |
Cause | To establish a unified standard of written Albanian |
Organised by | Institute of Linguistics and Literature |
Participants | 87 |
Outcome | The establishment of the Standardized Albanian language |
The Albanian Orthography Congress (Albanian: Kongresi i Drejtshkrimit të Gjuhës Shqipe) was a linguistics event held in Tirana, People's Republic of Albania, in 1972. It established for the first time the unified orthographic rules of the Albanian language which are still in use today.[1]