Countries
Armenian Highland
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Greek
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3828
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3220
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
1210
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
您好
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
谢谢
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
你好吗？
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
晚安
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
下午好
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
早上好
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
请
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
遗憾
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
再见
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
arménien
cantonais
German Name
Armenisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Han Chinese
Origin
late 5th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
141
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
hy
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
yue
ISO 639 2/B
arm
yue
ISO 639 3
hye
No data available
ISO 639 6
hye
yue
Glottocode
arme1241
cant1236
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
-