Countries
Armenian Highland
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
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
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
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
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arme1241
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic