Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon
Encyclopedia
The Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon is the second most ancient Albanian language
document ever retrieved after the Formula e pagëzimi. The lexicon was written by Arnold Ritter von Harff, a German
traveler, who in 1496 was spending some hours in the port of Durrës
and transcribed some words of the locals, by writing on the side, the German
translation of them. The document includes 26 words in Albanian, 8 expressions, and numbers from 1 to 10, and also 100, and 1000.
Albanian language
Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
document ever retrieved after the Formula e pagëzimi. The lexicon was written by Arnold Ritter von Harff, a German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
traveler, who in 1496 was spending some hours in the port of Durrës
Durrës
Durrës is the second largest city of Albania located on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is one of the most ancient and economically important cities of Albania. Durres is situated at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea, opposite the Italian ports of Bari...
and transcribed some words of the locals, by writing on the side, the German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
translation of them. The document includes 26 words in Albanian, 8 expressions, and numbers from 1 to 10, and also 100, and 1000.