Countries
Countries
Armenian Highland
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Greek
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3833
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3231
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
123
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Selam
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
i'bakwon
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
aznallehu
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
tschao
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
yiqirta
Dialects
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Gondar
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Gondar
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Showa
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
25
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
arménien
amharique
German Name
Armenisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Amharas
History
Origin
late 5th century
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Amharic
Language Position
1455
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
hy
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
amh
ISO 639 2/B
arm
amh
ISO 639 3
hye
amh
ISO 639 6
hye
amh
Glottocode
arme1241
amha1245
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional