Countries
Armenian Highland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian 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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Greek
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3833
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3221
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Cyrillic
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
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Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Olonets
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
-
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Русский
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Russki
French Name
arménien
russe
German Name
Armenisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Russians
Origin
late 5th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Standard Russian
Language Position
147
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
rus
ISO 639 2/B
arm
rus
ISO 639 3
hye
rus
ISO 639 6
hye
rus
Glottocode
arme1241
russ1263
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic