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Armenian
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Armenian

Member of the largest ethnic group inhabiting Armenia. There are Armenian minorities in Azerbaijan (see Nagorno-Karabakh), as well as in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iran. Christianity was introduced to the ancient Armenian kingdom in the 3rd century. There are 4–5 million speakers of Armenian, which belongs to the Indo-European family of languages.



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``Why should we celebrate 1,600 years of the Armenian alphabet when we don't utilize it today?
The visit coincided with the 90th anniversary of the genocide and the 1600th anniversary of the invention of the Armenian alphabet, he noted.
In the 4th century, a monk named Mesrob developed the unique Armenian alphabet with 36 letters (two more were added in the 12th century) so that the Bible could be translated into a language understood throughout the country.
 
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