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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 .
Armenian palaeography is a branch of palaeography [1] [2] that examines the historical development of Armenian script forms and lettering. It also encompasses a description of the evolution of Armenian writing. [3] The Armenian alphabet was devised in 405 in the cities of Edessa and Samsat by the scholar-monk Mesrop Mashtots. [4]
with the Classical Armenian orthography only, the vowel represented by y will be represented by h instead, when it is at the initial position of a word or of a radical in a compound word; this difficulty has disappeared in modern Armenian with the reformed orthography that changed the original Armenian letter in such case.
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.
Ben (majuscule: Բ, minuscule: բ; Armenian: բեն) is a letter of the Armenian alphabet, used in the Armenian language. It was one of the original letters in the Armenian alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD. [1] It is speculated to be derived from the Greek letter Beta with the rightmost curves cut off somewhat.
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Che, or Če (majuscule: Ճ; minuscule: ճ; Armenian: ճե; Classical Armenian: ճէ) is the nineteenth letter of the Armenian alphabet.It represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate (/t͡ʃ/) in Eastern Armenian, and the voiced postalveolar affricate (/d͡ʒ/) in western varieties of Armenian.
Da, Ta, or T’a (majuscule: Դ; minuscule: դ; Armenian: դա) is the fourth letter of the Armenian alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar plosive (/d/) in Eastern Armenian and the aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive (/tʰ/) in Western Armenian. It is typically romanized with the letter D. [1]