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 until the 18-19th centuries. Partly intelligible to speakers of modern Armenian.

Synonyms

• Classical Armenian
• Grabar
• Liturgical Armenian

Translations

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