Daniele hamamdjian armenian alphabet

As some people know the Armenian alphabet was re invented in AD by the Armenian linguist and theologian Mesrop Mashtots with the help of the patriarch Sahak Partev and the Armenian king Vramshapouh. For these achievements Mashtots was made a saint in the Armenian Church. The Armenians after all had an ancient alphabet that was long lost by the early middle ages for a discussion read: Tracing the oldest Armenian script.

He describes the mission as follows:. The King told them of a man named Daniel, a Syrian bishop of noble lineage, who unexpectedly had come into the possession of letters of Armenian alphabet.

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He then dispatched a man named Vahrij along with messages to a priest called Habel, who was an intimate of Bishop Daniel. As for Habel, upon hearing it, he hastened to Daniel, and first became familiar, through Daniel, with the letters, then taking them from him sent to the King in the land of Armenia. The [letters] reached his hands on the fifth year of his reign.

Upon receiving the letters from Habel, the King rejoiced with Sahak and Mashtots. Then the blessed stewards taking the unexpectedly discovered object of their search, requested of the King young children through whom they might experiment with the alphabet. And when many of them had been taught, the King commanded that everywhere the instruction be effected through the same [letters].

Thus the blessed one attained the noble rank of teacher, and taught for two years with the use of the same letters. Unfortunately, the letters, due to their age and condition, appeared to be insufficient to be applied to the entire Armenian language. Thus it had to be updated and modified. Koryun explains this process as follows:.