Old Armenian

English

Proper noun

Old Armenian

1. The oldest attested form of the Armenian language, first written down at the beginning of the 5th century AD and spoken until 12th century; then replaced by Middle Armenian. Served as a literary language till 18-19th century. Partly intelligible to speakers of modern Armenian.

Synonyms

• Classical Armenian
• Grabar
• Liturgical Armenian

Translations

language

• Armenian: գրաբար (hy) (grabar), հին հայերեն (hy) (hin hayeren)

  Old Armenian: հայ բարբառ (hay barbaṙ)

• Azeri: qədim erməni dili (az)
• French: arménien ancien (fr) m, arménien classique (fr) m
• Georgian: ძველი სომხური (ka) (jveli somxuri)
• German: Altarmenisch (de) n

• Italian: armeno classico (it) m, grabar (it) m
• Polish: staroormiański (pl) m
• Russian: грабар (ru) (grabár) m, древнеармянский (ru) (drevnearmjánskij) m
• Turkish: Eski Ermenice (tr)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Old Armenian terms
• Old Armenian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ISO 639-3 code xcl (SIL)
• Linguist List entry for Classical Armenian, code xcl