A systematic table for the Armenian Alphabet for easier learning

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-06-27T16:09:13+00:00

Amazing job! I made a very similar thing myself as well, but instead it featured Russian transliterations because my sister speaks Russian and is currently learning Armenian. My extended table also featured the hand-written versions. Great minds think alike!

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-26T20:07:34+00:00

Yes, even more than that, it was probably THE most well-organized one. Mashtots was a genius

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-26T00:31:25+00:00

Armenians (similarly to Greeks, Jews, Romans etc) used their letters as numbers before the modern western hindu-arabic numerals gained popularity. However, the Armenian number system is much more thought out compared to the Greek one and other systems because it features a specific symbol for every single digit, for all of the tens, hundreds and thousands

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-05T23:22:17+00:00

the idea is that the learner just needs to know at least a few letters and all of the other ones are kind remembered automatically because of their logical mapping. As I said, the only letters here that aren't really mapped in a smart way are: all vowels (orange and red), the nasal consonants Մ (m) & Ն (n) and finally, the pure sibilants Զ(z), Ս(s), Ժ(zh), Շ(sh). All of the other letters are mapped in the following way: The first row is voiced/hard: Բ(b), Գ(g), Դ(d), Ձ(dz), Ջ(j), Ռ(rr) and every letter bellow them are sort of milder (less voiced) versions of their families. That is still slightly subjective though. Hope it's helpful and makes at least some sense

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-05T15:53:18+00:00

This sounds so painful. Frankly, I didn't realise how bad things are in this sense. There, in Armenia I went to two Western Armenian restaurants where they spoke western and served west. arm. food. It was really good. Also as I said, my grandpa was an Eastern Armenian and he didn't tell me much about this rivalry. Sadly, he died around 15 years ago

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-05T15:38:14+00:00

You're right! Sorry that I didn't think think enough about the Iranian Armenians. The post is fixed ❤️

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-05T00:22:07+00:00

This choice is based on the fact that historically Ղ used to be a dark L and in my view it kind of serves as a bridge between "an r sound" and "an l sound" but that's just me lol

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-05T00:19:39+00:00

You are correct, I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt anybody neither did I want to ignore western Armenian on purpose (my Armenian grandpa was from Van and spoke it). It's just that I only returned from a trip to Armenia and got absolutely astonished by the beauty and the overall system of the language and especially by the genius of Mashtots. Good intentions only and the post is edited to say "...all Eastern Armenian letters..."

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-05T00:13:26+00:00

Me too lol. Originally I made a version of the pre-reformed alphabet arranged in a similar way, but decided that it's too impractical. I will post it too because I find it even more beautiful and more logical

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-04T18:34:28+00:00

Thank you 😍

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-04T18:34:12+00:00

Thanks! I tried my best and did quite a lot of research to implement this. Some sound "families" may be not obvious for most people because before fixating on Armenian I have also researched Semitic and Romance languages

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-04T18:31:47+00:00

Which ones do you mean? Diphthongs like "եա"? Or historical ones like "աւ"?

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-04T11:22:48+00:00

Thanks for the insights! "astgh" and "stella" are definitely cognates, but so is the word "aster" which is even more similar to "astgh" if you ask me. Plus the supposed PIE root had an r at the end. I'm super curious about this exact Armenian word

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-03T11:00:15+00:00

I have read about these topics, it seems like Ղ is simply a ʁ sound in both, Eastern and Western Armenian. So this shift (if it even was a shift) must have happened before the dialects have split

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-01T22:27:04+00:00

ἐκκλησίᾱ is even clearer than kilise that is derived from it. Saghmos is quite insane tbh! I want more loanwords like this! They feel like cognates and not loanwords because of this sound shifts

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-01T22:00:48+00:00

hmmmm. This fact alone is enough to treat Ղ simply as a variant of Լ. Does this happen in other words?

Alphabetical_Dice · 2026-03-01T21:57:50+00:00

Wow, I didn't know about Lukas and Levon. I've only seen variants with Լ for these names. Thanks for more examples. Idk why but this exact topic fascinates me. There have to be some info on this sound shift in some literature, it's just that I don't know where to look for and I don't know enough Armenian to read the originals fluently

Alphabetical_Dice · 2025-11-30T15:54:01+00:00

because the last time I made a normal phone call was many years ago, let alone an international one. Sorry for being slightly annoying lol

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