However, he experienced great difficulty in instructing the people, for the Armenians had no alphabet of their own, instead using Greek, Persian, and Syriac scripts, none of which were well suited for representing the many complex sounds of their native tongue.
Con todo, pasou grandes dificultades xa que os armenios non tiñan alfabeto propio: utilizaban as escrituras grega, persa e siria, mais ningunha era adecuada para representar correctamente os numerosos sons da súa lingua nativa.