| Middle Armenian | |
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| Cicilian Armenian | |
| Region | Armenian Highlands, Cilicia |
| Era | c. 1100 - 1700 AD developed into modern Armenian |
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| Armenian alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-3 | axm |
axm | |
| Glottolog | None |
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| History of the Armenian language |
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Armenian alphabet Romanization of Armenian |
Middle Armenian (Armenian: Միջին հայերէն or կիլիկեան հայերէն), also called Cilician Armenian (although this may be confused to refer to modern dialects),[1] corresponds to the second period of Armenian which was spoken and written in between the 12th and 18th centuries. It comes after Grabar (Classical Armenian) and before Ashkharhabar (Modern Armenian).[2]
Classical Armenian was predominantly an inflecting and synthetic language, but in Middle Armenian, during the period of Modern Armenian influence, agglutinative and analytical forms influenced the language.[3] In this respect, Middle Armenian is a transition stage from Old Armenian to Modern Armenian (Ashkharhabar). [4] Middle Armenian is notable for being the first written form of Armenian to display Western-type voicing qualities and to have introduced the letters օ and ֆ, which was based on the Greek letters "o" and "φ".
- ^ Karst, Josef (1901). Historische Grammatik des Kilikisch-Armenischen (in German). E.J. Trübner.
- ^ Melkonian, Zareh (1990). Գործնական Քերականութիւն - Արդի Հայերէն Լեզուի (Միջին եւ Բարձրագոյն Դասընթացք) (in Armenian) (Fourth ed.). Los Angeles. p. 137.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ History of the Armenian Language in the Pre-Written Period, Yerevan, 1987.
- ^ H. Acharian, History of the Armenian Language, parts I-II,