Page 10 - HP1A 003 Armenian Language And The Inoovation Of Armenian Alphabet

Armenian alphabet

In the late 4th century AD, King

Vramshapuh of Armenia asked

Mesrop Mashtots, one of the officials

in his chancellery and a prominent

scholar, to create a new alphabet for

Armenian. Before then, Armenian

had been written with 'cuneiform'

scripts, which was deemed unsuitable

for religious works by the Armenian

Church. Medieval Armenian sources

also claim that Mashtots invented

the Georgian and Caucasian