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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    January 30, 2005 Sunday

    Garegin II calls for marking 1,600 jubilee of Armenian alphabet

    By Tigran Liloyan

    YEREVAN

    Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II, has
    issued an encyclical on the occasion of the 1,600 anniversary of the
    Armenian alphabet to be marked later this year. The document was read
    out at a liturgy service in Holy Echmiadzin on Sunday.

    Sixteen centuries have passed since the day when enlightener and
    scientist Archimandrite Mesrop Mashtots invented the Armenian written
    language for Armenians to read the Bible in their native tongue,
    Garegin II said. "St. Mesrop's alphabet made the Armenian language
    immortal. That golden root gave life to the beautiful tree of
    Armenian culture, which unites Armenians all over the world by their
    Christian originality and spirituality directed into the future," he
    said.

    The Catholicos called on people to cherish the Armenian written
    language and school "so that our fatherland and Holy Church live
    forever."

    He also called on archpriests and clerics of the Armenian Church and
    all believers to celebrate the jubilee.

    The Armenian language, a separate branch of the Indo-European family
    of languages, has a 39-letter alphabet.
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