Countries
Armenian Highland
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Greek
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3826
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
329
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
126
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
hallo
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
Danke
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
guten Tag
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
guten Morgen
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
bitte
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Verzeihung
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
Tschüs
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Germany
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Texas German
Where They Speak
-
Texas
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
228
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
arménien
allemand
German Name
Armenisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Germans
Origin
late 5th century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
149
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
deu
ISO 639 2/B
arm
ger
ISO 639 3
hye
deu
ISO 639 6
hye
deus
Glottocode
arme1241
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic