Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Until the 19th century , Classical Armenian was the literary language ; since then , the Armenian alphabet has been used to write the two official literary dialects of Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian . The Armenian word for `` alphabet '' is ' , named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet ' and ' .
Simplified: The Armenian alphabet is an alphabet that has been used to write the Armenian language since the 5th century .