Armenian
Հայոց գրերSample Characters
First 48 characters from Armenian (U+0531–U+058F)
About Armenian
The Armenian alphabet was created in 405 CE by the scholar-monk Mesrop Mashtots to translate Christian scriptures into Armenian and provide Armenians with their own writing system independent of Greek and Syriac.
The alphabet has 38 letters and is written left-to-right. It is uniquely associated with the Armenian people and language — one of the rare cases where a known individual created an entire writing system. The Armenian script survived the fall of the Armenian kingdom and has served as a central marker of Armenian identity through centuries of foreign rule and diaspora.
Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.
Script Family & Lineage
Languages Using Armenian 1
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Key Facts
- ISO Code
- Armn
- ISO Number
- 230
- Script Type
- Alphabet
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Status
- Living
- Region
- Middle Eastern
- Characters
- 96
- Introduced
- 405 CE
- Languages
- 1
- Total Speakers
- ~5M
Unicode Ranges
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ArmenianU+0531–U+058F
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Alphabetic Presentation FormsU+FB13–U+FB17
Script Properties
- Has Case
- Yes
- Cursive
- No
- Vowels
- full