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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Armenian Highland

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

32
Rank: 22 (Overall)
German
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)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
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)
Macedonian
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)
Dzongkha
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)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

6.00 million
Rank: 67 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

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

5.3 Native Speakers

6.00 million
Rank: 60 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
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)
Chinese
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

Origin of Armenian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Armenian language is one of the Best Languages to Learn. The origin of Armenian language states that it was put to use in late 5th century. The history of Armenian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Armenian Language History.The evolution of Armenian language began with early forms such as Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian. Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian is the standard form of Armenian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Armenian Language.

Armenian population

Armenian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Armenian language. Armenian language is spoken by 6.00 million people in the world. Most of the Armenian population lies in the Armenian Speaking Countries. Armenian language is spoken as first language by 6.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Armenian as second language. Get to know Armenian speaking population in detail.

Armenian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Armenian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Armenian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Armenian manuscript script is used by Armenian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Armenian language

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