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How to recognize Armenian
Armenian is one of 6 languages in Grafle's Independent Scripts group. Here's what it looks like, where you'll see it on signs, and how to tell it apart from its lookalikes.
Spot it fast
- Rounded u- and n-shapes with long tails (ա, մ, ն, ո) — like Latin letters melted into new forms.
What Armenian looks like
Բոլոր մարդիկ ծնվում են ազատ և հավասար իրենց արժանապատվությամբ։
Բարև, ինչպե՞ս ես այսօր։
Հայերենը գեղեցիկ լեզու է։
Independent Scripts scripts: One-of-a-kind alphabets that fit no larger family: Greek, Hebrew, Georgian, Armenian, Ethiopic, Thaana.
Where you'll see it on signs
- Armenia
Easy to confuse with
- Georgian — Both look round — Georgian has no capitals and flows like vines; Armenian has straighter stems, tails, and capital letters.
- Amharic (Ethiopic) — Amharic glyphs are leggy syllable-symbols; Armenian is an alphabet of rounded u/n shapes with tails.