AM Translit -- Armenian Transliteration and Virtual Keyboard
The project AM.TRANSLIT.CC has been created to support both international Armenian community spreaded around the World and people who learn Armenian. Our online Armenian converter is a powerful and easy to use tool at the same time. The transliterator is optimized to consume less resources and perform the translation faster than most of the other similar Web applications.
Using this Armenian transliteration service you can solve a few tasks. The translit converter can help you to emulate Armenian keyboard, thus produce correct Armenian letters when you type corresponding Latin (e.g. using English, German, French keyboards) keys. This feature of the transliterator serves as Armenian phonetic keyboard and can help you then, when you have no access to the conventional Armenian keyboard or Armenian keyboard layout. The Armenian keyboard emulator is also available for direct access via mouse. The on screen Armenian keyboard is located on the right side of the screen under the label "Virtual Armenian keyboard".
The Armenian transliterator supports both Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian pronunciations. Each dialect has its own transliteration table. Armenian transliteration tables are displayed on the right hand side of the text input field. A preferred dialect of Armenian and related transliteration scheme can be easily selected from the drop down selector "Transliteration method" in the right bottom corner of the Virtual Armenian keyboard.
Note: Description is quoted from the Armenian Translit homepage.
Georgian Alphabet
Overview from Omniglot:
Origin
Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in Armenia (Հայաստան [Hayastan]) and in Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto, though unrecognised, independent republic in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus. This area is also known as the Republic of Artsakh (Արցախի Հանրապետություն), and is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan. There are also Armenian speakers in many other countries, including Russia, Lebanon, the USA, Georgia, Iran, France, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
Armenian belongs to its own independent branch of the Indo-European language family. It is not closely related to any other languages.
There are two main varieties of Armenian: Eastern Armenian (արևելահայերեն) and Western Armenian (արեւմտահայերէն). To educated speakers of either variety the other is more or less mutually intelligible.
Eastern Armenian has 2.9 million speakers in Armenia, where it is the official and most commonly-spoken language. There are also about 660,000 speakers of Eastern Armenian in the Dagestan Republic of the Russian Federation, 120,000 in Azerbaijan, and 100,000 in Iran. The total number of speakers is about 3.8 million [source].
The largest concentrations of Western Armenian speakers are found in Lebanon (294,000), the USA (238,000), Georgia (150,000), Armenia (73,000), France (70,000), Syria (65,000), Turkey (61,000), Iraq (60,000), Uzbekistan (60,000) and Ukraine (50,000). The total number of speakers is about 1.2 million [source].
Armenian is the offical language of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and has official status as a minority language in Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. Until the the early 1990s schools in Armenian taught in either Armenian or Russian, however after the collapse of the USSR, Armenian became the main medium of instruction and the Russian-medium schools were closed. In 2010 Russian language education was reintroduced in Armenia.
Notable features
- Type of writing system: alphabet
- Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines
- Used to write: Armenian, and formerly used for Turkish, Azeri, Kipchak and Kurdish
- There are a few minor differences in the pronunciation of the letters between the two standard literary forms of Armenian: Western and Eastern.
- Most of the letters have numerical values.
Online Resources- Dictionaries and Spellcheckers
University of California, Berkeley: Armenian Language and Culture
This guide to Armenian language and culture offers resources that will be of interest to students and instructors hoping to find more materials on Armenian language and culture. This guide features sections on Armenian manuscripts, newspapers, digital collections, and topical books and journals.
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