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Alphabets Of The South Caucasus
The historical alphabets of the South Caucasus are the Caucasian Albanian, Armenian and Georgian. Armenian and Georgian alphabets are in use today and Caucasian Albanian is not as it was rediscovered in 1937. In 1937 a 13th-century Armenian “collective codex of educational character” was discovered in the Matenadaran (ms. 7117) which contains among the accounts of several other scripts (Armenian, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, Georgian, and Coptic), a list of “Albanian” letters (''ałowanicʿ girn''). The list comprises 52 characters arranged in alphabetical order. The earliest surviving Armenian handwriting and the only example of Armenian script surviving on any ancient papyri is a ''Greek Educational Papyrus in Armenian Script'' kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris (BnF Arm 332), Greek text in Armenian characters dated 5th-7th century. Georgian Gospel text contained in the codex can be shown to be dated to 5th-7th centuries and is kept in Makhachkala, Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasian Albanian Script
The Caucasian Albanian script was an alphabetic writing system used by the Caucasian Albanians, one of the ancient Northeast Caucasian peoples whose territory comprised parts of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan and Dagestan. It is one of the three historical alphabets of the South Caucasus. It was used to write the Caucasian Albanian language and was one of only two native scripts ever developed for speakers of an indigenous Caucasian language (i.e., a language that has no genealogical relationship to other languages outside the Caucasus), the other being the Georgian scripts. The Armenian language, the third language of the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands with its own native script, is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. Rediscovery Although mentioned in early sources, no examples of it were known to exist until its rediscovery in 1937 by a Georgian scholar, Professor Ilia Abuladze, in Matenadaran MS No. 7117, a manual from the 15th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
