Ani Textbooks Educational designer Armen Kyurkchyan Title in Armenian Աշխարհի designer Armen Kyurkchyan giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children Marr's hypotheses was used as a rationale in the campaign during the 1920 30s in the Soviet Union of introduction of Latin alphabets for smaller ethnicities of the country 25 December 1864] – 20 December 1934) was a Georgia born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his controversial "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language (from 1924) and related speculative linguistic hypotheses