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2 unusual facts about Armenian Alphabet


Armenian alphabet

When the Armenian Duzoglu family managed the Ottoman mint during the reign of Abdülmecid I, they kept records in Armenian script but in the Turkish language.

Francesco Maggiotto

The Armenian early medieval scholar Mesrop Mashtots (362-440) was the creator of the Armenian alphabet.


Comparison of Unicode encodings

The next 1,920 characters, U+0080 to U+07FF (encompassing the remainder of almost all Latin alphabets, and also Greek, Cyrillic, Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Tāna and N'Ko), requires 16 bits to encode in both UTF-8 and UTF-16, and 32 bits in UTF-32.

Goghtn

Mesrop Mashtots', the inventor of the Armenian alphabet, is assumed to have lived and worked in the town of Msrvanis (Mesropavan) during his stay in Goght'n.

Mesropavan

Mesropavan is named after Mesrop Mashtots, founder of the Armenian Alphabet, who lived in the village for years in the 5th century.

Ottoman Turkish language

It was not, however, unknown for Ottoman Turkish to also be written in Armenian script: for instance, the first novel to be written in the Ottoman Empire was 1851's Akabi, written in the Armenian script by Vartan Pasha.


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