Page 13 - HP1A 003 Armenian Language And The Inoovation Of Armenian Alphabet

Armenian: Eastern Armenian,

spoken mainly in Armenia, Nagorno-

Karabakh, Georgia and Iran; and

Western Armenian, spoken by

the Armenian diaspora in many

countries. They are more or less

mutually intelligible.

There are four principal calligraphic

hands of the script. Erkatagir, or

"ironclad letters", seen as Mesrop's

original, was used in manuscripts

from the 5th to 13th century and

is still preferred for epigraphic