Middle Armenian

Middle Armenian (Armenian: Միջին հայերէն or կիլիկեան հայերէն), also called Cilician Armenian (a term that may also refer to modern dialects), was the second phase of the Armenian language, spoken and written in between the 12th and 18th centuries, after Grabar (Classical Armenian) and before Ashkharhabar (Modern Armenian).

Classical Armenian was predominantly an inflecting and synthetic language; in Middle Armenian, agglutinative and analytical forms influenced the language. In this respect, Middle Armenian is a transition stage from Old Armenian to Modern Armenian (Ashkharhabar). Middle Armenian introduced the letters օ (o) and ֆ (fe), based on the Greek letters "o" and "φ".