Countries
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Greek
Derived From
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
38
Rank: 20 (Overall)
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
32
Rank: 22 (Overall)
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
Rank: 44 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
Rank: 44 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
Rank: 67 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %
Rank: 46 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
arménien
German Name
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Origin
late 5th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Branch
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
14
Rank: 13 (Overall)
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
ISO 639 2/B
arm
ISO 639 3
hye
ISO 639 6
hye
Glottocode
arme1241
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic