Countries
Armenian Highland
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Greek
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3224
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
126
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Ħello
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
Grazzi
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Kif int?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Skużani!
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
Ċaw
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Qormi
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Malta
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Malta
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Not Present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
22
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Malti
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Malti
French Name
arménien
maltais
German Name
Armenisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Maltese
Origin
late 5th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Maltese
Language Position
1425
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
arm
mlt
ISO 639 3
hye
mlt
ISO 639 6
hye
mlt
Glottocode
arme1241
malt1254
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic