1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Armenian Highland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Greek
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Armenian manuscript
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Բարի օր (Bari or)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
3.8 Please
Ndicela
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
կներեք (knerek’)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Ց'տեսություն
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Not Applicable
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million6.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million6.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Armenians
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
late 5th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic