Language and Writing
- Armenian alphabet The writing system created around 405 by Mesrop Mashtots for the Armenian language, still used by Armenians today.
- Koriun Pupil of Mesrop Mashtots and author of his biography, The Life of Mashtots, the oldest account of the creation of the Armenian alphabet.
- The Life of Mashtots Koriun’s biography of Mesrop Mashtots, written soon after 440, and the oldest account of the creation of the Armenian alphabet.
- Mashtots, Mesrop Armenian monk and scholar who created the Armenian alphabet in the early fifth century and founded the schools and translations that made Armenian a written language.