Countries
Armenian Highland
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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 large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Greek
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.00 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
arménien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Armenisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Armenians
  
Germans
  
Origin
late 5th century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hy
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hye
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
arm
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
hye
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
arme1241
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic