Countries
Armenian Highland
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Greek
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3223
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
126
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
سلام
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
متشکرم
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
صبح به خیر
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
لطفا
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
متاسف
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
خدا حافظ
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
arménien
persan
German Name
Armenisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Persian people
Origin
late 5th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Persian
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
fas
ISO 639 2/B
arm
per
ISO 639 3
hye
pes
ISO 639 6
hye
pers
Glottocode
arme1241
fars1254
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic