Armenian alphabet

The Armenian alphabet is the Alphabet used to write the Armenian .

Characteristics

The Armenian alphabet counts thirty-eight characters and, unlike the Semitic Langues used in the adjoining countries of the east and the south of the the Caucasus, has an integral notation of the Voyelle S. It takes again with the Greek twenty-two sounds to which it allots its own signs and adds fourteen signs intended to note foreign sounds with the Greek.

The Armenian writing, as the Greek writing to which it is partially related, uses at the same time of capital letters and tiny (bicameral writing). The shapes of the signs of the Armenian alphabet are inspired by those of the characters Persan S formerly of use in Arménie.

The Armenian belongs to the Indo-European Langues. He is spoken in Arménie and by the Armenian communities about the whole world. The Eastern Armenian spoken in Arménie and the Western Armenian are distinguished.

Initially, the alphabet was made of only one series of letters of the type Oncial ( to erkathagir ), which thereafter became the Majuscule S of the modern alphabet. These last, also called “letters of iron” are today supplemented by a tiny series of S ( to bolorgir or round letters).

Towards the end of the Moyen-âge appeared a writing Cursive ( to notrgir ), of use in Typographie and which made the same use as our Italique. This writing, now exceeded, is replaced by another writing with the character of right aspect, the aramian, of the name of its creator.

To bolorgir, as for him, evolved/moved to become easier to read, but preserved its leaning aspect.

History

The Armenian alphabet was created in 405 per saint Mesrop Machtots. It thus allowed the Armenian to become a written language, the Grabar. The Bible was the first text with being translated into grabar by Mesrop Machtots itself. The oldest form of Armenian writing, which was used until the 11th century, is known under the name of erkat 'to act (iron letters).

Alphabet

The following table gives the detail of the Armenian alphabet. Each letter sees specifying its capital C-W communication and Bas-de-casse, like its name in Armenian (and the pronunciation of this one), its pronunciation, its usual transliteration and its numerical value.

Punctuation and diacritic

Unicode

The standard Unicode uses the characters U+0530 with U+058F to code the Armenian alphabet.

See too

Armenian Numeration

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