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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Armenian Highland

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine

1.7 Regulated By

Armenian National Academy of Sciences

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
  • Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.

1.9 Similar To

Greek

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

38
Rank: 20 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

32
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Armenian manuscript

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Բարեւ (Barev)

3.2 Thank You

Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)

3.3 How Are You?

Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)

3.4 Good Night

Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)

3.5 Good Evening

Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)

3.6 Good Afternoon

Բարի օր (Bari or)

3.7 Good Morning

Բարի լույս (Bari luys)

3.8 Please

Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)

3.9 Sorry

կներեք (knerek’)

3.10 Bye

Ց'տեսություն

3.11 I Love You

Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)

3.12 Excuse Me

Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Eastern Armenian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Western Armenian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not Applicable

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Applicable

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

6.00 million
Rank: 67 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

6.00 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Հայերէն (Hayeren)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri

5.3.4 French Name

arménien

5.3.5 German Name

Armenisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]

5.5 Ethnicity

Armenians

6 History

6.1 Origin

late 5th century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

hy

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

hye

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

arm

7.3 ISO 639 3

hye

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

arme1241

7.6 Linguasphere

57-AAA-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Not Available

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Armenian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Armenian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Armenian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Armenian. Armenian phonology gives Armenian vowels and Armenian consonants. There are 6 vowels and 32 consonants in Armenian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Armenian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Armenian language is given in detail in this section.

All Armenian countries

Want to explore all Armenian countries? About Armenian language serves you with all Armenian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Armenian as official language are called as Armenian countries.

  • Countries that use Armenian as their National Language are: Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Armenian as second language are: Armenian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Armenian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Armenian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Armenian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Armenian language.Learn Armenian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Բարեւ (Barev)
  • Thank you: Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  • Good Morning: Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  • Good Evening: Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  • Good Afternoon: Բարի օր (Bari or)

All Armenian Language Codes

Get to know all Armenian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Armenian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.