Armenian Alphabet

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PREFACE

ARMENIA: CRADLE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Armenia is 8,000 year old. By all means, it is the cradle of our civilization and one of the greatest empires of the ancient world. It gave humanity, outstanding artists, erudite theologians, scientists ahead of their time, legendary architects and masons, apostles of peace and mighty war lords. It conquered the greatest part of Asia Minor, ruled Egypt, invented the first written systematic Alphabet, defended the Christian faith, fed Rome's Marcus Aurelius with most formidable warriors legions composed from its early inhabitants and multi ethnic tribes. Also, Ancient Armenia wrote the book on astronomy, urban development, irrigation, warfare, dressmaking, metal mining, and as if it was not enough, Armenia was the world's first nation to introduce the human race to Monotheism...Constant invasions and centuries of occupation by Turks, Muslims, Asian tribes, Bolshevism, communism erased the glorious past of Armenia. And being isolated from the world by the iron curtain and the Ottoman empire, Armenia's voice was not heard in the civilized world. However, centuries of magnificent Armenian accomplishments, inventions, literature, arts, science and contributions to our civilization and development of the creative and rational mind of our specie, could not be forgotten. This book is a tribute to the glorious past of Armenia, to the struggles of the brave Armenian people and a reminder that once upon a time, Armenia was one of the 10 greatest empires in history.

ASTONISHING EARLY INVENTIONS

Early Armenian thinkers and men of science were unparalleled inventors in their time. The list of their inventions is endless. To name a few:

1- The Armenians were the first to invent fully operational astronomic tools and compass to map the skies.

2- Early Armenian architects and masons designed and built the world's first circular towers, later to be adopted and copied by the Crusaders on their way to Palestine.

3- The very early Armenians known also as the Hyskos, invented the world's first urban irrigation system and city sewage, later to be copied by the Hellenists, The Greeks and the Romans.

4- For years, it was believed that writing paper (Papyrus) was an Egyptian invention, refined by the Greeks, and inspired by the Phoenicians. The Greeks gave the Phoenician city Byblos its name ( Jbeil, today), for Byblos meant Biblio (Book) in Greek, because that ancient city invented the manufacturing and binding of books. However, recent discoveries In Ougarit (Ugarit) and Amrit, revealed the existence of numerous written communications (Royal messages) exchanged between the kings of Armenia and the Phoenician kings of Tyre (Sour, today), Sidon (Saida, today) and Byblos (Jbeil, toda) and written on Armenian parchments in the form of papyrus. Thus, asserting the fact that the early Armenians: a-Invented the papyrus; b-The early Armenians and Phoenicians invented the first written and systematic Alphabet. 5-The early Armenians invented the plaster molding, later to be used by Alexander the Great during his Asia Minor campaign.

5- The Hyskos were the world's fist military power to create and use the war chariots and bow arch. These two inventions were documented in ancient Egyptians inscriptions describing the Armenian conquest and ruling of Egypt for a very long time.

6- The early Armenian textile merchants and dressmakers invented the lace dye (Janyaq), similar to the Phoenician's "Al Oujouwan", known also as the dye of royalty, or the "Royal Color".

7- Early Armenian Christian monks were the precursors and original illustrators of Christian Illuminated Transcripts and sacred books, later to be copied by pre-medieval European monks and doctors of the Catholic church.

8- Early Armenian architects and fortresses builders were the first designers and builders of cathedrals and churches domes. A remarkable architectural beauty and design, copied centuries later by Byzantine, Rome, the Vatican, the Renaissance, and the Christian world in the eastern and western hemispheres.

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9- Early Armenian stone cutters and builders were the first to discover and use granulated mortar in the construction of the highly elevated ramparts and military fortifications of their cities, later to be used on a large scale by the Romans.

10- In 4,000 B.C., Armenia began mining metals and manufacturing helmets, shields and swords, followed by minting coins and metallic statuettes and figurines, year ahead of the Roman empire.

ANCIENT ARMENIANS INVENT THE WORLD’S FIRST WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE AND WERE THE WORLD’S FIRST CIVILIZATION TO ESTABLISH MONOTHEISM

I would like very much to advance this theory at the costly risk of being publicly ridiculed by colleagues who are on the wrong side of the fence. How could possibly and logically in human terms, a learned erudite explain the amazingly rapid advancement of the early and very small number of Armenians from a stone age to the age of metal mining, metallurgy, sophisticated irrigation system, discovery of astronomy and invention of astronomy tools, maps and calculus while the world’s greatest civilizations took them thousands of years to catch up with the Armenians?

Other great ancient civilizations and empires were bigger than the small empire of Armenia (Armenian kingdoms of Urartu and Cilicia) and larger in size, population, territories and military power, yet, those mighty empires did not advance as fast as the Armenians? It took them centuries to commence to comprehend the high standards of Ancient Armenian accomplishments in science and art. Quite often, I wonder, whether the early Armenians were the real, the original, the seeds, or the virtual specie of a galactic society or an extremely advanced quasi-humanoid civilization like the Atlanteans or the people of Mu? I would have advanced and defended this avant-garde theory, should the Armenian writing system had not metamorphosed, evolved and periodically changed like a human product or know-how, through the ages, from Paleolithic, to Pictographic, to Syllabic and finally to Phonetic Alphabet. Very ancient Armenian written symbols-code-iconographic language recorded on leather scrolls from the 4^th century B.C. were discovered in Sinai and referred to as the Neshanagir scripts, the world’s first manuscripts and scripts used as the “written language” of literature, art, alchemy, astrology, astronomy, sacred architectural geometry, algebra, parallel magic, occult and medicine. Those manuscripts are known as the Odessian scripts and are the direct chronological link between the Mesrobian letters and the Hyksosian letters, centuries ahead of the Hamurabian code, the Mesopotamian language, the Assyrian language, the Hittites language, the Persian language, the Anou Sherwan Kesrah language, the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Phoenician Alphabet and any Canaanite -Aramaic-Acadians written language. The Odessian manuscripts are factual and can be seen at the Armenian monastery of Saint Lazar in Odessa, The Ukraine. Epistemologically and historically, it was referred to the ancient Armenian Mesrobian scripts as the Yergatagir meaning the script of the iron age, a historical era well documented in the history of Armenia which began around 2,000 B.C. Unfortunately, the ancient Armenian language did not survive for several reasons, to name a few:

1-The Armenid reign collapsed and with its decline, the old Armenian alphabet dissipated as well;

2- The creation of the new and mighty empire of the Indo-European-Aryan imposed its own language and alphabet;

3-The Urartians began to officially adopt the Mesopotamian cuneiform which drastically contributed to the total dissipation of the early Armenian alphabet.

There are other historical documents which shed some light on the originality of the ancient Armenian alphabet and directly linked several Semitic languages to their mother-language, the Armenian alphabet, such as the inscriptions uncovered in Cholagerd and Armavir in the Russian Republic and other historical inscriptions left by the Hyksos in Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor and the Sinai peninsula. Historical facts and documents pertaining to this reality are overwhelming and abundant.

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The Hyksosian alphabet invented by the Hyksos around the 18^th century-the 16^th century B.C. in the Middle-Near East gave birth to all the languages of the Near East, Middle Eastern, Asia Minor and the African continent which consequently originated the languages of our modern time. At the dawn of the birth of ancient languages, the Hyksosian alphabet spread into two different directions:

1- The first branch was the south Semitic language-alphabet which originated the African and the very ancient Ethiopian languages-alphabets;

2- The second branch was the north Semitic language which originated the Aramaic (the mother tongue of Jesus Christ) which was commonly used by the Phoenicians, Israelites, a great part of Egypt, Syria and ancient Palestine and various dialects of the Canaanite language-alphabet which gave birth to the famous Phoenician alphabet and the Hebrew language-alphabet. Later, the Phoenician language-alphabet developed the ancient Greek language-alphabet. Once well defined and enriched with vowels, the ancient Greek was received by the Romans who spread it in Asia and Europe.

Armenian ("Mashots") Alphabet
Upper Case	Lower Case	Number Value	Roman alphabet	Upper Case	Lower Case	Number Value	Roman alphabet
²	³	1	a	Ö	×	100	ch
´	µ	2	b	Ø	Ù	200	m
¶	·	3	g	Ú	Û	300	y
¸	¹	4	d	Ü	Ý	400	n
º	»	5	ye, e	Þ	ß	500	sh
¼	½	6	z	à	á	600	o, vo
¾	¿	7	e	â	ã	700	ch'
À	Á	8	'uh	ä	å	800	p
Â	Ã	9	t'	æ	ç	900	j
Ä	Ä	10	zh	è	é	1000	rr
Æ	Ç	20	i	ê	ë	2000	s
È	É	30	l	ì	í	3000	v
Ê	Ë	40	kh	î	ï	4000	t
Ì	Í	50	ts	ð	ñ	5000	r
Î	Ï	60	k	ò	ó	6000	ts'
Ð	Ñ	70	h	àõ	áõ	7000	u
Ò	Ó	80	dz	ö	÷	8000	p'
Ô	Õ	90	gh	ø	ù	9000	k'
					¨		yev, ev
				ú	û		o
				ü	ý		f
Key: ' represents a hard consonant À is a soft ending, the sound "uh" is a drop off sound.

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