Series Introduction
Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum
Armenian is the state language of just exactly what in present memory was the republic that is smallest associated with the previous Soviet Union, now the southernmost republic of this Commonwealth of Independent States. The language is talked by about four million individuals nevertheless residing inside the edges for the republic. a tiny selection of speakers reside in north-western Iran, plus some communities dot the countryside of eastern Turkey. Many emigrees have actually spread the language to any or all corners regarding the globe. The first documentary evidence of this Armenians is just a century that is sixth inscription in Behistun because of the Persian master Darius we. It had been almost a lot of years, but, ahead of the Armenians by themselves begun to place their language to composing, when in 406 or 407 A.D. a priest MaЕЎtКїocКї (also called Mesrop) developed A armenian alphabet. One also discovers mention of the an alphabet that is prior because of the Syriac bishop Daniel, purportedly abandoned as it ended up being ill-suited to your audio system of this language. The language whose documents date back again to this era is termed traditional Armenian. Much later on, within the twelfth to centuries that are seventeenth one finds the legacy of Middle Armenian, whose writers attemptedto emulate the design of the Golden Age of Classical Armenian. Between those two cycles one further differentiates two phases associated with language that is armenian post-Classical, spanning the sixth and 7th hundreds of years, and Pre-Middle Armenian, through the eighth to twelfth centuries. Continue reading
