Have you ever wondered how languages and their use spread and change? Trade, travel, religion, scholarship, and war are some of the ways we see the dissemination and influence of language and other aspects of culture reach out from their origin communities. It is different for all languages and there is no one path, but in this week’s video, Collections Curator Gary Lind-Sinanian shows us one of the many means by which Europeans of the 18th century were exposed to the Armenian alphabet and language, including a unique use for Armenian letters.