Countries
Armenian Highland
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
  
Turkish Language Association
  
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Greek
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  
günaydın
  
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
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Dialect 2
Western Armenian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
arménien
  
turc
  
German Name
Armenisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Armenians
  
Turkish
  
Origin
late 5th century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hy
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hye
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
arm
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
hye
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arme1241
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic