Armenian uses the Armenian alphabet and is the official language of Armenia.
Armenian is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. According to Armenian tradition, the monk and scholar Mesrop Mashtots created the Armenian alphabet around AD 405. The script was designed to represent Armenian sounds and helped support the translation of Christian texts into the language.
The alphabet originally contained 36 letters. Additional letters were introduced later, and the modern alphabet has 39 letters. Armenian has two principal standardized forms: Eastern Armenian, used mainly in Armenia, and Western Armenian, associated with Armenian communities in the diaspora.
Armenian is sometimes confused with Georgian because both languages are associated with the Caucasus and have distinctive scripts. They are unrelated, however: Georgian belongs to the Kartvelian family, while Armenian is Indo-European. Armenia’s official language is Armenian, and the language has a written literary tradition extending for more than 1,600 years.