Countries
Armenian Highland
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Greek
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3826
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3223
9
60
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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
126
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Wu
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
210
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.22 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
7.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
arménien
chinois
German Name
Armenisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Han
Origin
late 5th century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
zho
ISO 639 2/B
arm
chi
ISO 639 3
hye
zho
ISO 639 6
hye
zho
Glottocode
arme1241
sini1245
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating