Facts and explanations about the Albanian language

On the contrary, under "What to Submit" in the Hacker News Guidelines, we find:

> ... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

And, yes, it is interesting.

One thing I wonder about: apparently Albanian has the c-cedilla that is also found in French. It was my understanding that the cedilla was originally a small "s" drawn under the "c", to show that it is to be pronounced like an "s". However, according to this article, Albanian pronounces "s" much the way English does, but the c-cedilla is like English "ch". So it seems that, at some point in the distant past, Albanians began writing little "s" marks to show that a "c" is not pronounced like "s". I wonder why.

[EDIT: The Wikipedia article on cedilla is loaded with information. In particular, it appears that I was wrong; a cedilla is not derived from an "s", but rather a "z".]