Note to the Reader
Owing to the nature of this volume, the editors have implemented some general rules concerning the use of non-Latin scripts.
The Armenian script has been used throughout, with the following exceptions:
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Armenian names, titles, and highly relevant or frequent technical terms are transliterated according to the system developed by Hübschmann, Meillet, and Benveniste (HMB) in the form employed by the Revue des Études Arméniennes. A summary of this system is given below.
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Bibliographic entries are always transliterated.
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In the Linguistic articles (de Lamberterie, Meyer), owing to the prevalent convention in the discipline, both the Armenian script and the transliteration are used.
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In Calzolari’s article, the transliteration system created by the Library of Congress for Western Armenian (
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/armenian.pdf ) is used to render more accurately the pronunciation of Western Armenian names and words. In these cases, the HMB transliteration is always given at the first occurrence of each item. However, in order to avoid cumbersome double transliterations, the Armenian script has been preferred whenever possible. -
Whenever the choice of transliteration and/or original script is particularly relevant to the point being made by the author, an exception to the general criteria has been granted.
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Other scripts (Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, etc.) are transliterated according to the systems that are most widely accepted by the relevant scholarly communities. The distribution of Latin vs original script follows the same guidelines outlined above.
A final note on manuscripts: the preferred manner of citation has been left to each individual author. For Armenian manuscripts, however, the acronyms developed by B. Coulie (see e.g. Armenian Manuscripts. Catalogues, Collections, Libraries, 2nd revised edition, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020) and recommended by the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes (AIEA) are always given.