01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Armenian
One of the world's most stable scripts, used for 1,600 years with almost no modification since Saint Mesrop Mashtots created it in 405 AD.
One of the world's most stable scripts, used for 1,600 years with almost no modification since Saint Mesrop Mashtots created it in 405 AD. The Armenian Church considers it "a gift from God," and immediately after Bible translation, a golden age of 5th-century Armenian literature began. After the 1915 Ottoman genocide of Armenians, this script became the central symbol of national identity for ~7 million diaspora scattered worldwide.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Left to right (LTR)
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
08REACH