LEADER OF “SELF-DETERMINATION UNION” PARTY CALLS UPON TO
REESTABLISH OLD ARMENIAN ORTHOGRAPHY
YEREVAN, MARCH 11. ARMINFO. At today’s press-conference, Leader of
the “Self-Determination Union” party Paruyr Hayrikyan called upon to
abandon the present-day orthography of the Armenian language and to
reestablish the Old-Armenian or “Mesropyan” orthography.
In his words, all the Armenians over the world use the Armenian script
created by the author of Armenian alphabet Mesrop Mashtots, and on that
script the Bible has been translated. Only the independent Republic
of Armenia abandons it and uses the orthography imposed to Armenian
people by Stalin and Bolsheviks. Celebrating the 1600th anniversary
of the Armenian alphabet is at least immorally, Hayrikyan thinks. He
intends to appeal to the National Academy of Sciences and to call
upon to reestablish the “Mesropian” orthography.
Answering the question on why Hayrikyan and his team-mates did not
raise this question early in 90’s when he was a Parliament’s member,
the SDU leader said that a Law on language was adopted just due to his
efforts, but “the foreign agents and, first of all, the Russian special
service, stealing into all the spheres” prevented its realization. -r-
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress