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The verjaket (whose vertically stacked two dots look like a Latin colon) is used as the ordinary full stop, and placed at the end of the sentence (many texts in Armenian replace the verjaket by the Latin colon as the difference is almost invisible at low resolution for normal texts, but the difference may be visible in headings and titles as the dots are often thicker to match the same optical weight as vertical strokes of letters, the dots filling the common x-height of Armenian letters).Īrmenian punctuation marks used inside a word:.The mijaket (whose single dot on the baseline looks like a Latin full stop) is used like an ordinary colon, mainly to separate two closely related (but still independent) clauses, or when a long list of items follows.The boot' (which looks like a comma-shaped reversed apostrophe) is used as a short stop, and placed in the same manner as the semicolon, to indicate a pause that is longer than that of a comma, but shorter than that of a colon in many texts it is replaced by the single opening single quote (a 6-shaped, or mirrored 9-shaped, or descending-wedge-shaped elevated comma), or by a spacing grave accent.The storaket is used as a comma, and placed as in English.The computer-induced use of English-style single or double quotes (vertical, diagonal or curly forms, placed above the baseline near the M-height of uppercase or tall lowercase letters and at the same level as accents) is strongly discouraged in Armenian as they look too much like other – unrelated – Armenian punctuations. The čakertner are used as ordinary quotation marks and they are placed like French guillemets: just above the baseline (preferably vertically centered in the middle of the x-height of Armenian lowercase letters).Only the first and last letters, and the abbreviation mark ՟, are written. The word Աստուած Astvats "God" abbreviated. In the new orthography, the character և is no longer a typographical ligature, but a distinct letter, placed in the new alphabetic sequence, before "o". Armenian print typefaces also include many ligatures. ^ The ligature և has no majuscule form when capitalized it is written as two letters Եւ (classical) or Եվ (reformed).Īncient Armenian manuscripts used many ligatures.One exception is մըն /mən/ (indefinite article, when followed by a word beginning with a vowel), e.g. ^ The letter ը is generally used only at the start or end of a word, and so the sound /ə/ is typically unwritten between consonants.

The spelling reform in Soviet Armenia replaced իւ with the trigraph յու. In classical orthography, the letter usually represents /v/, except in the digraph իւ /ju/. ^ In reformed orthography, the letter ւ appears only as a component of ու.In reformed orthography, they are separate letters of the alphabet. ^ In classical orthography, ու and և are considered a digraph (ո + ւ) and a ligature (ե + ւ), respectively.^ Iranian Armenians (who speak a subbranch of Eastern Armenian) pronounce this letter as, like in Classical Armenian.^ Except in ով /ov/ "who" and ովքեր /ovkʰer/ "those (people)" in Eastern Armenian.^ Primarily used in classical orthography after the reform used word-initially and in some compound words.Listen to the pronunciation of the letters in Eastern Armenian ( help.Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Armenian letters. Armenian is written horizontally, left to right. The Armenian word for "alphabet" is այբուբեն ( aybuben), named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet: ⟨ Ա⟩ Armenian: այբ ayb and ⟨ Բ⟩ Armenian: բեն ben. The alphabet was also in wide use in the Ottoman Empire around the 18th and 19th centuries. The system originally had 36 letters eventually, three more were adopted. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader. The Armenian alphabet ( Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, Hayots' grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayots' aybuben Eastern Armenian: Western Armenian: ) is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
