Countries
Armenian Highland
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Greek
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3213
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
124
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Moi
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
haluta
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Anteeksi
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
Heippa
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Finland
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Rauma
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
-
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
221
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Suomi
French Name
arménien
finnois
German Name
Armenisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Armenians
ethnic Finns
Origin
late 5th century
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
standard Finnish
Language Position
1422
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
fin
ISO 639 2/B
arm
fin
ISO 639 3
hye
fin
ISO 639 6
hye
fin
Glottocode
arme1241
finn1318
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic