Jul 23, 2025
The practice of combining individual letters into ligature forms—known in Armenian as Ktsa’gir (Կցագիր)—originated primarily from the necessity to conserve space, particularly within the contexts of epigraphy and the design of seals. Although rarely employed in manuscripts executed in the Erkata‘gir script, such ligatures occasionally appear when spatial constraints arise at the end of a line. In these instances, multiple characters are visually conjoined to accommodate the limited surface.
Ktsa'gir Կցագիր Armenian Calligraphy by Ruben Malayan 2025