Countries
Armenian Highland
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Greek
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3848
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3236
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
126
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
कृपया
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
arménien
népalais
German Name
Armenisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
late 5th century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Nepali
Language Position
1459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
hy
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
nep
ISO 639 2/B
arm
nep
ISO 639 3
hye
npi
ISO 639 6
hye
nep
Glottocode
arme1241
nepa1254
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative