In this blogpost I am going to talk about Trchnakir or in other words, the Armenian bird letters. This is a very unique type of calligraphy that you will hardly see applied with letters other than Armenian. Just look at the image below – this is the Armenian name Hovik (Յովիկ in Armenian, a local […]
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What was the Armenian alphabet before Mesrop Mashtots? There are a lot of medieval records that testify that the Armenian alphabet was (re)invented in 405 AD. I say (re)invented because a lot of evidence speaks in favor of the idea that there was an Armenian script before Mesrop Mashtots (commonly known as the “inventor” of
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I am going to talk about weird Armenian phrases today. Some of them are funny and weird when you translate them literally. They have become part of our life and we don’t even notice using them. For an ear of a foreigner, however, they are definitely downright ridiculous. But try to learn one or two,
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