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Armenian alphabet
| Armenian | |
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| Script type | |
| Creator | Mesrop Mashtots |
Time period | AD 405 to present[1] |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Official script |  Armenia |
| Languages | Armenian |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Child systems | [3][4] |
Sister systems | |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Armn (230), Armenian |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Armenian |
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| Armenian letter art and its cultural expressions | |
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.jpg) Tatev Monastery, 8th century | |
| Country | Armenia |
| Reference | 01513 |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 2019 (14 session) |
| List | Representative |
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| History of the Armenian language |
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Armenian alphabet Romanization of Armenian |
The Armenian alphabet (Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, Hayocʼ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayocʼ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around 405 CE by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. The script originally had 36 letters. Eventually, two more were adopted in the 13th century. In reformed Armenian orthography (1920s), the ligature և ev is also treated as a letter, bringing the total number of letters to 39.
The Armenian word for 'alphabet' is այբուբեն (aybuben), named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet: ⟨Ա⟩ Armenian: այբ ayb and ⟨Բ⟩ Armenian: բեն ben. Armenian is written horizontally, left to right.[5]
- ^ Maarten van Lint, Theo (2012). "From Reciting to Writing and Interpretation: Tendencies, themes, and demarcations of Armenian historical writing". In Sarah Foot; Chase F. Robinson (eds.). The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400–1400. Oxford University Press. pp. 180–200. ISBN 978-0-19-923642-8.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Rayfield, Donald (2000). The Literature of Georgia: a history. Caucasus world (2nd ed.). Richmond: Curzon. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-7007-1163-5.
The Georgian alphabet seems unlikely to have a pre-Christian origin, for the major archaeological monument of the first century 4IX the bilingual Armazi gravestone commemorating Serafua, daughter of the Georgian viceroy of Mtskheta, is inscribed in Greek and Aramaic only. It has been believed, and not only in Armenia, that all the Caucasian alphabets – Armenian, Georgian and Caucaso-Albanian – were invented in the fourth century by the Armenian scholar Mesrop Mashtots. ... The Georgian chronicles The Life of Kanli assert that a Georgian script was invented two centuries before Christ, an assertion unsupported by archaeology. There is a possibility that the Georgians, like many minor nations of the area, wrote in a foreign language – Persian, Aramaic, or Greek – and translated back as they read.
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