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Indo-Iranian family into a higher-
level subgroup of Indo-European
which is defined by such shared
innovations as the augment. More
recently, others have proposed a
Balkan grouping including Greek,
Armenian, Phrygian and Albanian
From the early 18th century until Armenian and Arabic scripts. The
the 1950s, some 2,000 books were Armenian alphabet was used in
published in Turkish written the literature of Kipchak-speaking
in the Armenian alphabet, and Armenian Orthodox Christians
official documents produced during between 1524 and 1669. The poet
the Ottoman period were in the Sayat-Nova used the Armenian
