Countries
Armenian Highland
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Greek
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3824
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3217
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
126
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Greece
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Griko
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Italy
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Mariupol
Where They Speak
-
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
225
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
arménien
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Armenisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
late 5th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Modern Greek
Language Position
1474
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
ell
ISO 639 2/B
arm
gre
ISO 639 3
hye
ell
ISO 639 6
hye
ells
Glottocode
arme1241
gree1276
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic