Countries
Armenian Highland
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Greek
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3217
9
60
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Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
123
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
e dupe
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
e kaasan
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
e kaaro
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Jowo
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
binu
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
bye
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Ede
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
220
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.22 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
7.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
arménien
yoruba
German Name
Armenisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Armenians
Yoruba people
Origin
late 5th century
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Yorùbá
Language Position
1449
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Armenian
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hy
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hye
yor
ISO 639 2/B
arm
yor
ISO 639 3
hye
yor
ISO 639 6
hye
yor
Glottocode
arme1241
yoru1245
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating