About

The Story

The idea of "Hayadar" was born a while back when writing Armenian, in Armenian Letters, was not accessible. I'm talking about the time when the Armenian keyboard wasn't embedded in any operating system & we couldn’t dream about writing in Armenian on our phones.

After many attempts & various discussions with many people specialized in both Tech & Armenian Literature I realized that the idea itself wasn’t that unique, that many attempts were made & failed, and because of the complexity of the Armenian Language, this isn’t feasible.

And then came the “eureka” moment! I came up with a programing logic that made things possible. A “good enough” version was developed, put to test, improved & launched. This was Hayadar.com beta

After a short period, it came to my attention that in Diaspora, every region transliterates words differently. Let alone the merged influence of Western & Eastern Armenian.

The algorithm was improved & Hayadar v 1.0 was launched.

Then came Hayadar v1.1 with more improvements & all the words were correctly spelled.

Since then the project got a few & minor updates, mainly new words were dumped into the system.

And now, it is the time for Hayadar.com v2!

With more than 200,000 correctly spelled words, I believe Hayadar is in a stage to move to the next phase of the project.

Today, I start working on Hayadar Armenian Keyboard for mobile devices. HAK will transliterate Armenian words as you type in Latin.

One important & must-have feature of this keyboard will be the ease to switch between Transliterating Armenian, Armenian & your system language. This is critical.

Your support will help make HAK a reality faster.

Timeline

The Idea

Around 2010
"Eureka" Moment

Late 2012
Closed Beta

April-July 2013

This is when the social media pages were launched, the domain name Hayadar.com was registered & the first, early trial was made public. Watch the Very early trial & Early beta test videos on Youtube
Hayadar.com is Out as Public Beta

July 27, 2013

Finally everyone can test Hayadar.com
Hayadar.com v1

May 06, 2016

Hayadar.com is officially out of public beta, with far better sppe, word-list & features
Hayadar.com v1.1

March 2019

Hayadar.com v1.1 is out. More improvements & all the words were correctly spelled.
Hayadar.com v2

Feb 2022

Faster & more than 200,000 words
Hayadar "How To"s

Feb 2022

Videos & Posts on how to add Armenian keyboard to your various devices, the difference between different layouts & so on. Some of the videos is already out.
Hayadar Armenian Keyboard

March 2022

I'm starting to develop HAK, your support will speed up the process. Exclusive previews, for supporters on Patreon. Follow Hayadar on social media for updates.
Hayadar API

March 2022

Integration of the platform on other sites, so their visitors can transliterate directly in the comment (or other) sections of those sites.
Hayadar Add-ons

Firefox/Chrome browser add-ons that will let the users use the service directly in their browsers, on any website they want.