Armenian (Iranian Armenian): writing

01Scripts

• ISO 15924 Armn · Left to right

  ա բ գ դArmenian alphabet

  38 letters, in capital and small forms.

02Alphabet chart: Armenian alphabet

Letters: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters for hy.

• 38 letters, in capital and small forms.
• Traditional numerals use the letters: Ա is 1, Ժ is 10, Ճ is 100, Ռ is 1,000 (CLDR numbering system armn).
• IPA here follows Eastern Armenian.

Sources Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified; The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. (2026) Verified

03Romanisation and transliteration

Writing the language in other letters, by open published standards. Libraries use the ALA-LC tables for names and titles.

04Numerals

05Orthography and standards

No official orthography body is recorded for Armenian (Iranian Armenian) yet.

Sources ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify; ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. (2025) Verified; Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. (2026) Verified

06Keyboards and typing

Windows

Settings, Time and language, Language and region: add the language, then its keyboard. Switch with Windows key and Space.

macOS

System Settings, Keyboard, Text Input: edit Input Sources and add the keyboard. Switch from the menu bar.

Android

In the keyboard app’s settings (Gboard: Languages), add the language and choose its layout.

iPhone and iPad

Settings, General, Keyboard, Keyboards: add the keyboard. Switch with the globe key.

Linux

In the desktop settings (GNOME: Keyboard, Input Sources), add the layout.

Which layouts each system ships for each language changes with every release. Check the list on your device; layouts we have confirmed are named on the language’s page.

07Fonts

On this platform the language is shown with Noto Sans Armenian. Every face is self-hosted under an open licence.

08Sources

1. Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Exemplar characters and default numbering systems, read 2026-10-23.

2. Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Armenian, 2022 version. 2022

   Verified

3. The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. 2026

   Verified Unicode License v3 Character names, code points and block ranges.

4. ISO 15924 codes for the representation of names of scripts. Unicode Consortium, registration authority. 2025

   Verified

5. ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. 2025

   To verify Codes cross-checked through Glottolog records; the code tables themselves were not read.

09Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

1. The Hyphenated Architect Armenians and Modernist Architecture in Pahlavi Iran

   Grigor Talinn · 2026 · Armenian Art in Iran

   ChapterCrossref

2. The Conversion of Christian Armenians to Islam in Iran in the Early Modern Period

   Kristine Kostikyan · 2025 · Religions

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

3. ARMENIANS OF MODERN IRAN

   A. Amurian, M. Kasheff · 2020 · Encyclopaedia Iranica Online

   DatasetOpenAlexCrossrefOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

4. Nest of Revolution: The Caucasus, Iran, and Armenians

   Houri Berberian · 2018 · I.B.Tauris eBooks

   ChapterOpenAlexCrossref

5. The Iranian Armenian Community

   Houri Berberian · 2018 · Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905—1911

   ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

6. Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905—1911

   Houri Berberian · 2018 · Routledge

   BookCrossrefOpenAIRE

7. Houri Berberian, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds

   Thomas Welsford · 2021 · Études Arméniennes Contemporaines

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

8. Historical Changes of Limitations and Causes of Divorce in the Rights of Iranian Armenians

   azra khatami, Hossein Heidari · 2024 · فقه و حقوق خانواده

   ArticleDOAJOpen access

9. HLA Antigens in Two Iranian Populations: The Armenians and The Jews

   H Tabatabai, K Mohammad, N Mohagheghpour · 1978 · Tissue Antigens

   ArticleOpenAIRE

10. The Armenian community in Iran: Issues and emigration

    Gohar Iskandaryan · 2019

    ArticleOpenAIRE

11. The Mass Repatriation of the Armenians from Iran in 1946-1947 (Some Statistical Data)

    Lina Malekian · 2007 · Iran and the Caucasus

    ArticleCrossref

12. 10 Armenian Language and Identity in Iran: The Case of Iranian Armenians of Isfahan

    Saeed Rezaei, Maryam Farnia · 2023 · De Gruyter

    ArticleOpenAIRE

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