Countries
South Africa
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Greek
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5338
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4332
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
312
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
Unjani
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
Molo
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
Ndicela
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
South Africa
-
How Many People Speak
19.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
92
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
xhosa
arménien
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Armenians
Origin
16th Century
late 5th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
2114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
hye
ISO 639 2/B
xho
arm
ISO 639 3
xho
hye
ISO 639 6
xho
hye
Glottocode
xhos1239
arme1241
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic