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About Armenian Armenian is the language spoken by Armenian people in Armenia as well as Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora. The Armenian language has about 6.4 million speakers at home.

Armenian is written in its own script called Armenian alphabet created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots around the year 406 CE. Originally, the Armenian alphabet contained 36 letters, with օ and ֆ added in the Middle Ages. From the 19th century, it has been used to write the two official dialects of Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian. The Armenian alphabet is among the 5 modern European scripts that are enclosed in the Unicode 4.0 chart, other four are Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Georgian. The Unicode range assigned for Armenian alphabet is U+0530-058F. To type Armenian without installing an Armenian keyboard, you can use virtual Armenian keyboards, which allows you to type Armenian online by either clicking on the letters on the virtual Armenian keyboard or typing directly with your own keyboards. Then you can save your typing and copy text wherever you want.

There are some disadvantages of a virtual keyboard. For example, you need Internet access to type and you have to copy and paste your Armenian text every time you finish typing. So it is apparently inconvenient if you need to type Armenian frequently. In this case, you will need to install an Armenian keyboard, which is easy but you will need to get familiar with the Armenian keyboard layout. Below is a typical Armenian keyboard layout.

To get familiar with the Armenian keyboard layout fast, it is suggested that you buy a keyboard or a keyboard sticker of Armenian, which has the Armenian keyboard layout printed on it and can be placed on the surface of your existing keyboard. However, whether you want to type with a keyboard or a keyboard sticker you need to first install the Armenian keyboard.

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Without proper, you may see instead of Armenian letters. The Armenian alphabet (: Հայոց գրեր Hayoc' grer or Հայոց այբուբեն Hayoc' aybowben; Eastern Armenian:; Western Armenian: ) is an writing system used to write.

It was developed around 405 AD by, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. It originally had 36 letters, but now has 39. The Armenian word for 'alphabet' is aybowben, named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet: ⟨ Ա⟩: այբ ayb and ⟨ Բ⟩: բեն ben. Armenian is written.

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430 CE • 862 CE • c. 940 CE • 1372 CE 1443 (probably influenced by Tibetan) 18 c. CE (derived from ). • • • Possible antecendents [ ] One of the classical accounts about the existence of an Armenian alphabet before Mashtots comes from (20 BCE – 50 CE), who in his writings notes that the work of the Greek philosopher and historian (ca. 145 BCE – 70 BCE), On Animals, was translated into Armenian. Metrodorus was a close friend and a court historian of the Armenian emperor, and also wrote his biography.

The monument to the Armenian alphabet at the in, The Armenian alphabet was introduced by and (Sahak Partev) in 405 CE. Medieval Armenian sources also claim that Mashtots invented the and alphabets around the same time. However, most scholars link the creation of the Georgian script to the process of, a core Georgian kingdom of. The alphabet was therefore most probably created between the conversion of Iberia under King (326 or 337) and the of 430, contemporaneously with the Armenian alphabet. Traditionally, the following phrase translated from Solomon's is said to be the first sentence to be written down in Armenian by Mashtots:: Čanačʿel zimastutʿiun yev zxrat, imanal zbans hančaroy. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding. Various scripts have been credited with being the prototype for the Armenian alphabet.