Countries
Armenian Highland
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Greek
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
  
آسف
  
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.00 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
arménien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Armenisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Armenians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
late 5th century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
hy
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hye
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
arm
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
hye
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arme1241
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic