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Armenian alphabet
alphabet used to write the Armenian language
Armenian numerals
historic numeral system using the majuscules of the Armenian alphabet
Ա/ա
Armenian letter “ayb” or “ayp”
Գ/գ
Armenian letter “gim” or “k’im”
Դ/դ
Armenian letter “da” or “t’a”
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Ե/ե
Yech, or Ech (majuscule: Ե; minuscule: ե; Armenian: եչ) is the fifth letter of the Armenian alphabet. It was created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century AD. It has a numerical value of 5. It represents the ([]) sound, but when it occurs word-initially, it is pronounced as [jɛ].
Թ/թ
Armenian letter “to”, “t’o”, “t’ò”, or “tô”
Բ/բ
Armenian letter “ben” or “p’en”
Է/է
Armenian letter “eh” or “ē”
Ժ/ժ
Armenian letter “zhe”, “že”, or “žē”
Լ/լ
Armenian letter “liwn”, “lyown”, or “liun”
Զ/զ
Armenian letter “za”
Կ/կ
Armenian letter “ken” or “gen”
Ծ/ծ
Armenian letter “ca”, “ça”, or “dza”
Ձ/ձ
Armenian letter “ja”, “dja”, “dza”, “ts’a”, or “tsa”
Հ/հ
Armenian letter “ho”, “hò”, or “hô”
Յ/յ
Armenian letter “yi” or “hi”
Պ/պ
Armenian letter “peh”, “pē”, “pe”, “beh”, “bē”, or “be”
Ն/ն
Armenian letter “now” or “nu”
Փ/փ
Pyur, Pyowr, Piwr, or '''P'ywr''' (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ; Armenian: փյուր; Classical Armenian: փիւր) is the 35th letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop (/pʰ/). Its capital form is homoglyphic to the Cyrillic letter Ef, the Greek letter Phi, and the IPA symbol for the voiceless bilabial fricative. The lowercase form is the letter Tyun with two additional vertical lines jutting on the top and the bottom. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.
Ջ/ջ
Armenian letter “jheh”, “ǰē”, “ǰe”, “je”, “djeh”, or “dsheh”
Մ/մ
Armenian letter “men” or “mèn”
Ֆ/ֆ
Armenian letter “feh”, “fe”, or “fē”
Շ/շ
Armenian letter “sha” or “ša”
Ո/ո
Armenian letter “vo”
Օ/օ
Armenian letter “oh”, “ō”, or “o”
Ռ/ռ
Armenian letter “ra”, “ṙa”, or “rra”
Ճ/ճ
Armenian letter “cheh”, “che”, “č̣ē”, “č̣e”, or “jeh”
Ր/ր
Armenian letter “reh”, “rē”, or “re”
Ց/ց
Armenian letter “co”, “c’o”, “c’ò”, or “ts’o”
Չ/չ
Armenian letter “cha”, “ch’a”, or “ča”
Տ/տ
Armenian letter “tiwn”, “tyown”, “tiun”, “tin” or “diun”
Ղ/ղ
Armenian letter “ghad”, “ghat”, or “ġat”
Ք/ք
Armenian letter “keh”, “ke”, “k’eh”, “k’ē” or “k’e”
Ւ/ւ
Armenian letter “yiwn”, “hiwn”, “hiun”, or “hyun”: traditional consonant letter, replaced by the digraph ‹Ու/ու› in the reformed orthography where it becomes vocalic
Armenian orthography reform
1922–24 Soviet reform of the Armenian orthography
romanization of Armenian
any method used to transliterate otherwise transcribe the Armenian script into the Latin script
և
Armenian letter ligature “ech yiwn” (U+0587), “yew”, or “jew”; this letter has no capital, its capitalization is written as a digraph “Եւ” (reformed orthography) or “Եվ” (reformed orthography)
Ու/ու
Armenian letter digraph « vo yiwn »
Ancient Armenia
history of Armenia from the 6th century BCE to the 5th century
History of the Armenian alphabet
Armeno-Turkish alphabet
Armenian script sometimes used for Turkish until 1928
classical Armenian orthography
orthography of the Armenian language prior to the Soviet reforms during the 1920s; still used by the Armenian diaspora