Countries
Armenian Highland
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Greek
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3243
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
123
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Molo
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Unjani
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Molo
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Ndicela
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Thembu
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Hlubi
Where They Speak
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South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
29
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
6.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.22 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
6.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
7.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
arménien
xhosa
German Name
Armenisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Armenians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
late 5th century
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
isiXhosa
Language Position
1421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
xho
ISO 639 2/B
arm
xho
ISO 639 3
hye
xho
ISO 639 6
hye
xho
Glottocode
arme1241
xhos1239
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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