Countries
Armenian Highland
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Latvian State Language Center
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Greek
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3224
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Sveiki
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
Paldies
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Labdien
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Labrīt
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
lūdzu
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Piedodiet!
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Livonian
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Latvia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Latvia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
High Latvian
Where They Speak
-
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Lettish
French Name
arménien
letton
German Name
Armenisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Latvians or Letts
Origin
late 5th century
1530
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Baltic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Latvian
Language Position
149
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
hy
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
lav
ISO 639 2/B
arm
lav
ISO 639 3
hye
lav
ISO 639 6
hye
lav
Glottocode
arme1241
latv1249
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic