Albanian Orthography Congress

Albanian Orthography Congress
Native name Kongresi i Drejtshkrimit të Gjuhës Shqipe
DateNovember 20–25, 1972 (1972-11-20 – 1972-11-25)
LocationTirana, People's Socialist Republic of Albania
ThemeOne Nation, One Language
CauseTo establish a unified standard of written Albanian
Organised byInstitute of Linguistics and Literature
Participants87
OutcomeThe 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]

  1. ^ Academy of Sciences of the PSR of Albania, Institute of History (1988), The History of the socialist construction of Albania, 1944–1975, Tirana: "8 Nënorti" Pub. House, p. 324, OCLC 22785544