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Countries

Countries
Armenian Highland

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe

Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine

Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts
  • The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
  • Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.

Similar To
Greek

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
38 20

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
32 22

Scripts
Armenian manuscript

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
12 9

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)

Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)

How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)

Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)

Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)

Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)

Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)

Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)

Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)

Bye
Ց'տեսություն

I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)

Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian

Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 2
Western Armenian

Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 34

Total No. Of Dialects
2 2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
6.00 million 67

Speaking Population
0.22 % 46

Native Speakers
6.00 million 60

Second Language Speakers
7.00 million 45

Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)

Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri

French Name
arménien

German Name
Armenisch

Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]

Ethnicity
Armenians

History

Origin
late 5th century

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian

Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian

Language Position
14 13

Signed Forms
Signed Armenian

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
hy

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
hye

ISO 639 2/B
arm

ISO 639 3
hye

ISO 639 6
hye

Glottocode
arme1241

Linguasphere
57-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type
-

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in Armenian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Armenian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Armenian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Armenian. Armenian phonology gives Armenian vowels and Armenian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 32 consonants in Armenian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Armenian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Armenian language is given in detail in this section.

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All Armenian countries

Want to explore all Armenian countries? About Armenian language serves you with all Armenian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Armenian as official language are called as Armenian countries.

  • Countries that use Armenian as their National Language are: Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Armenian as second language are: Armenian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Armenian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Armenian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Armenian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Armenian language.Learn Armenian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Բարեւ (Barev)
  • Thank you: Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  • Good Morning: Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  • Good Evening: Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  • Good Afternoon: Բարի օր (Bari or)

All Armenian Language Codes

Get to know all Armenian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Armenian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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