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Front Matter

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.

Ա Բ Գ Դ Ե Զ Է Ը
Era
Medieval
Region
Caucasus
System
Alphabet
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
38
Status
Active
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.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+0531–U+058A
Total signs38
In Unicode96
Unicode Blocks
Armenian
0530 – 058F
96 chars→
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
좌→우 (LTR)
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Same family

Asomtavruli (Old Georgian)
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Old Armenian

Countries

Armenia