The Formula e pagëzimit is the first written document in Albanian

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...

 retrieved. The sentence in Albanian is Un'te paghesont' pr'emenit t'Atit e t'Birit e t'Spirit Senit. (I baptize thee in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and modern ) and was contained in a pastoral letter written in Latin

Latin

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 by Pal Engjëlli

Pal Engjëlli

Pal Engjëlli was an Albanian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Durrës and Cardinal of Albania who in 1462 wrote the first known sentence retrieved so far in Albanian. Pal Engjëlli is reported to have been a friend, co-worker and close counselor of Skanderbeg. As his envoy, he frequently traveled...

. The document is dated November 8, 1462.

The document is held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

Florence

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, Italy

Italy

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, where it was discovered in 1915 by Romanian

Romanians

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 scholar Nicolae Iorga

Nicolae Iorga

Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Co-founder of the Democratic Nationalist Party , he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly as Prime Minister...

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