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Armenian khachkars in the form of individual Armenian letters in Oshakan, Armenia. 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.
Some Armenian letters have several romanizations, depending on their context: the Armenian vowel letter Ե/ե should be romanized as ye initially or after the vowel characters Ե/ե, Է/է, Ը/ը, Ի/ի, Ո/ո, ՈՒ/ու and Օ/օ; in all other cases it should be romanized as e; the Armenian vowel letter Ո/ո should be romanized as vo ...
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Armenian letters. Armenian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Armenian language, both the classical and reformed orthographies. Five Armenian ligatures are encoded in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block.
Armenian ( endonym: հայերեն [a], hayeren, pronounced [hɑjɛˈɾɛn]) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands, today Armenian is also ...
The Armenian alphabet was devised in 405 in the cities of Edessa and Samsat by the scholar-monk Mesrop Mashtots. [4] As is the case with other writing systems worldwide, the graphic layout of Armenian letters has undergone some changes in over 1600 years. [5] The four principal graphic forms [6] [7] [8] of Armenian writing during the Middle ...
The letter Ա is the most common letter in the Armenian alphabet. It occurs mainly in initial or medial word positions and very rarely in final position. This is explained by the fact that the Proto-Armenian language lost word-final vowels in multisyllabic words.
Vev or Vew (majuscule: Վ; minuscule: վ; Armenian: վո) is the 30th letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the voiced labiodental fricative ( /v/ ), similar to the English v sound as in village. It is typically romanized with the letter V. [1] It was part of the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century CE .
Vo (majuscule: Ո; minuscule: ո; Armenian: վո, վօ) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 600. [1] It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It represents the open-mid back rounded vowel ( /ɔ/ ), but when it occurs isolated or word-initially, it represents /vɔ/ 1.