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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]
The Armenian script, along with the Georgian, was used by the poet Sayat-Nova in his Armenian poems. [26] An Armenian alphabet was an official script for the Kurdish language in 1921–1928 in Soviet Armenia. [27] The Armeno-Tats, who've historically spoken Tat, wrote their language in the Armenian alphabet. [28]
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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;
Today the digital collections of Armenian books and periodical production count more than ten million digitalized pages. [2] On the 4 July 1919, during the council meeting of the ministers of Armenia, a law regarding "The national public book depository" was adopted. Since 1999, 4 July is celebrated as the Day of the National Library of Armenia.
This is a list of Armenia's tallest structures, containing all types of structures. Tallest structures. Name Picture Pinnacle height Year Construction type
Acharian dated the invention to 408, four years after Mashtots created the Armenian alphabet (he dated the latter event to 404). [19] Some Western scholars quote Koryun's claims without taking a stance on its validity [20] [21] or concede that Armenian clerics, if not Mashtots himself, must have played a role in the creation of the Georgian script.
Tourism in Armenia has been a key sector to the Armenian economy since the 1990s when tourist numbers exceeded half a million people visiting the country every year (mostly ethnic Armenians from the Diaspora). The Armenian Ministry of Economy reports that most international tourists come from Russia, EU states, the United States and Iran. [1]