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Armenian

հայերէն/հայերեն hayeren
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Native to Armenia
Native speakers
6.7 million[1][2]
Language family

Indo-European

  • Armenian

Early forms

Proto-Armenian

  • Classical Armenian

    • Middle Armenian



Standard forms

Eastern Armenian

Western Armenian





Writing system


  • Armenian alphabet

  • Armenian Braille


Official status
Official language in



  •  Armenia


  •  Artsakh


Recognised minority
language in


Official (de jure) status:


  •  Cyprus[3]


  •  Hungary[4]


  •  Iraq[5]


  •  Iraqi Kurdistan[6]


  •  Poland[7]


  •  Romania[8]


  •  Ukraine[9]


Semi-official or unofficial (de facto) status:




  •  Georgia
    (Samtskhe-Javakheti)[a]


  •  Lebanon[b]


  •  Turkey[c]


  •  Iran


  •  United States
    (California)[d]



Regulated by Institute of Language (Armenian National Academy of Sciences)[23]
Language codes
ISO 639-1 hy
ISO 639-2
arm (B)
hye (T)
ISO 639-3 Variously:
hye – Eastern Armenian
hyw – Western Armenian
xcl – Classical Armenian
axm – Middle Armenian
Glottolog
arme1241[24]
Linguasphere 57-AAA-a

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  Official language spoken by the majority


  Recognized minority language


  Significant number of speakers



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The Armenian language (classical: հայերէն; reformed: հայերեն [hɑjɛˈɾɛn] hayeren) is an Indo-European language spoken primarily by Armenians. It is the official language of Armenia. Historically being spoken throughout the Armenian Highlands, today, Armenian is widely spoken throughout the Armenian diaspora. Armenian is written in its own writing system, the Armenian alphabet, introduced in 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots.




Contents






  • 1 Classification and origins


    • 1.1 Early contacts


    • 1.2 Graeco-Armenian hypothesis


    • 1.3 Greco-Armeno-Aryan hypothesis




  • 2 Evolution


    • 2.1 Modern changes




  • 3 Phonology


    • 3.1 Stress


    • 3.2 Vowels


    • 3.3 Consonants




  • 4 Morphology


    • 4.1 Noun


    • 4.2 Verb




  • 5 Dialects


  • 6 Orthography


  • 7 Indo-European cognates


  • 8 See also


  • 9 Notes


  • 10 Footnotes


  • 11 References


  • 12 Further reading


  • 13 External links





Classification and origins[edit]












Armenian manuscripts.jpg

History of the Armenian language


  • Armenian hypothesis

  • Proto-Armenian


  • Classical Armenian (from 405)


  • Middle Armenian (c. 1100 – 1700)


  • Modern Armenian (c. 1700 – present)
    Eastern, Western, Homshetsi (mixed)



Armenian alphabet
Romanization of Armenian




























Armenian is an independent branch of the Indo-European languages.[25] It is of interest to linguists for its distinctive phonological developments within that family. Armenian exhibits more satemization than centumization, although it is not classified as belonging to either of these subgroups. Some linguists tentatively conclude that Armenian, Greek (Phrygian) and Indo-Iranian were dialectally close to each other;[26][27][28][29] within this hypothetical dialect group, Proto-Armenian was situated between Proto-Greek (centum subgroup) and Proto-Indo-Iranian (satem subgroup).[30]


Armenia was a monolingual country by the 2nd century BC at the latest.[31] Its language has a long literary history, with a 5th-century Bible translation as its oldest surviving text. Its vocabulary has historically been influenced by Western Middle Iranian languages, particularly Parthian, and to a lesser extent by Greek, Persian, and Syriac. There are two standardized modern literary forms, Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian, with which most contemporary dialects are mutually intelligible.[32][33][34][35]


Although the Armenians were known to history much earlier (for example, they were mentioned in the 6th century BC Behistun Inscription and in Xenophon's 4th century BC history, The Anabasis),[36] the oldest surviving Armenian-language text is the 5th century AD Bible translation of Mesrop Mashtots, who created the Armenian alphabet in 405, at which time it had 36 letters. He is also credited by some with the creation of the Caucasian Albanian alphabet. In The Anabasis, Xenophon describes many aspects of Armenian village life and hospitality in around 401 BC. He relates that the Armenian people spoke a language that to his ear sounded like the language of the Persians.[37]



Early contacts[edit]


W. M. Austin (1942) concluded[38] that there was an early contact between Armenian and Anatolian languages, based on what he considered common archaisms, such as the lack of a feminine gender and the absence of inherited long vowels. However, unlike shared innovations (or synapomorphies), the common retention of archaisms (or symplesiomorphy) is not considered conclusive evidence of a period of common isolated development.


In 1985, Soviet linguist Igor M. Diakonoff noted the presence in Classical Armenian of what he calls a "Caucasian substratum" identified by earlier scholars, consisting of loans from the Kartvelian and Northeast Caucasian languages.[39] Noting that Hurro-Urartian-speaking peoples inhabited the Armenian homeland in the second millennium BC, Diakonov identifies in Armenian a Hurro-Urartian substratum of social, cultural, and animal and plant terms such as ałaxin "slave girl" ( ← Hurr. al(l)a(e)ḫḫenne), cov "sea" ( ← Urart. ṣûǝ "(inland) sea"), ułt "camel" ( ← Hurr. uḷtu), and xnjor "apple(tree)" ( ← Hurr. ḫinzuri). Some of the terms he gives admittedly have an Akkadian or Sumerian provenance, but he suggests they were borrowed through Hurrian or Urartian. Given that these borrowings do not undergo sound changes characteristic of the development of Armenian from Proto-Indo-European, he dates their borrowing to a time before the written record but after the Proto-Armenian language stage.


Loan words from Iranian languages, along with the other ancient accounts such as that of Xenophon above, initially led linguists to erroneously classify Armenian as an Iranian language. Scholars such as Paul de Lagarde and F. Müller believed that the similarities between the two languages meant that Iranian and Armenian were the same language.[40] The distinctness of Armenian was recognized when philologist Heinrich Hübschmann (1875)[40][41] used the comparative method to distinguish two layers of Iranian words from the older Armenian vocabulary. He showed that Armenian often had 2 morphemes for the one concept, and the non-Iranian components yielded a consistent PIE pattern distinct from Iranian, and also demonstrated that the inflectional morphology was different from that in Iranian languages.



Graeco-Armenian hypothesis[edit]



The hypothesis that Greek is Armenian's closest living relative originates with Holger Pedersen (1924), who noted that the number of Greek-Armenian lexical cognates is greater than that of agreements between Armenian and any other Indo-European language. Antoine Meillet (1925, 1927) further investigated morphological and phonological agreement, postulating that the parent languages of Greek and Armenian were dialects in immediate geographical proximity in the Proto-Indo-European period. Meillet's hypothesis became popular in the wake of his Esquisse (1936). Georg Renatus Solta (1960) does not go as far as postulating a Proto-Graeco-Armenian stage, but he concludes that considering both the lexicon and morphology, Greek is clearly the dialect most closely related to Armenian. Eric P. Hamp (1976, 91) supports the Graeco-Armenian thesis, anticipating even a time "when we should speak of Helleno-Armenian" (meaning the postulate of a Graeco-Armenian proto-language). Armenian shares the augment, and a negator derived from the set phrase Proto-Indo-European language *ne h₂oyu kʷid ("never anything" or "always nothing"), and the representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels, and other phonological and morphological peculiarities with Greek. Nevertheless, as Fortson (2004) comments, "by the time we reach our earliest Armenian records in the 5th century AD, the evidence of any such early kinship has been reduced to a few tantalizing pieces".



Greco-Armeno-Aryan hypothesis[edit]



Graeco-(Armeno)-Aryan is a hypothetical clade within the Indo-European family, ancestral to the Greek language, the Armenian language, and the Indo-Iranian languages. Graeco-Aryan unity would have become divided into Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian by the mid-third millennium BC. Conceivably, Proto-Armenian would have been located between Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian, consistent with the fact that Armenian shares certain features only with Indo-Iranian (the satem change) but others only with Greek (s > h).


Graeco-Aryan has comparatively wide support among Indo-Europeanists for the Indo-European homeland to be located in the Armenian Highlands, the "Armenian hypothesis".[42][43][44][45] Early and strong evidence was given by Euler's 1979 examination on shared features in Greek and Sanskrit nominal flection.[46]


Used in tandem with the Graeco-Armenian hypothesis, the Armenian language would also be included under the label Aryano-Greco-Armenic, splitting into proto-Greek/Phrygian and "Armeno-Aryan" (ancestor of Armenian and Indo-Iranian).[26][27]



Evolution[edit]




Armenian manuscript, 5th–6th century.


Classical Armenian (Arm: grabar), attested from the 5th century to the 19th century as the literary standard (up to the 11th century also as a spoken language with different varieties), was partially superseded by Middle Armenian, attested from the 12th century to the 18th century. Specialized literature prefers "Old Armenian" for grabar as a whole, and designates as "Classical" the language used in the 5th century literature, "Post-Classical" from the late 5th to 8th centuries, and "Late Grabar" that of the period covering the 8th to 11th centuries. Later, it was used mainly in religious and specialized literature, with the exception of a revival during the early modern period, when attempts were made to establish it as the language of a literary renaissance, with neoclassical inclinations, through the creation and dissemination of literature in varied genres, especially by the Mekhitarists. The first Armenian periodical, Azdarar, was published in grabar in 1794.


The classical form borrowed numerous words from Middle Iranian languages, primarily Parthian,[47] and contains smaller inventories of loanwords from Greek,[47] Syriac,[47] Arabic,[48] Mongol,[49] Persian,[50] and indigenous languages such as Urartian. An effort to modernize the language in Bagratid Armenia and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (11–14th centuries) resulted in the addition of two more characters to the alphabet ("օ" and "ֆ"), bringing the total number to 38.[51]


The Book of Lamentations by Gregory of Narek (951–1003) is an example of the development of a literature and writing style of Old Armenian by the 10th century. In addition to elevating the literary style and vocabulary of the Armenian language by adding about well above a thousand new words,[52] through his other hymns and poems Gregory paved the way for his successors to include secular themes and vernacular language in their writings. The thematic shift from mainly religious texts to writings with secular outlooks further enhanced and enriched the vocabulary. “A Word of Wisdom”, a poem by Hovhannes Sargavak devoted to a starling, legitimizes poetry devoted to nature, love, or female beauty. Gradually, the interests of the population at large were reflected in other literary works as well. Konsdantin Yerzinkatsi and several others even take the unusual step of criticizing the ecclesiastic establishment and addressing the social issues of the Armenian homeland. However, these changes represented the nature of the literary style and syntax, but they did not constitute immense changes to the fundamentals of the grammar or the morphology of the language. Often, when writers codify a spoken dialect, other language users are then encouraged to imitate that structure through the literary device known as parallelism.[53]




The Four Gospels, 1495, Portrait of St Mark Wellcome with Armenian inscriptions




First printed Armenian language Bible, 1666


In the 19th century, the traditional Armenian homeland was once again divided. This time Eastern Armenia was conquered from Qajar Iran by the Russian Empire, while Western Armenia, containing two thirds of historical Armenia, remained under Ottoman control. The antagonistic relationship between the Russian and Ottoman empires led to creation of two separate and different environments under which Armenians lived and suffered. Halfway through the 19th century, two important concentrations of Armenian communities were further consolidated.[54] Because of persecutions or the search for better economic opportunities, many Armenians living under Ottoman rule gradually moved to Constantinople, whereas Tbilisi became the center of Armenians living under Russian rule. These two cosmopolitan cities very soon became the primary poles of Armenian intellectual and cultural life.[55]


The introduction of new literary forms and styles, as well as many new ideas sweeping Europe, reached Armenians living in both regions. This created an ever-growing need to elevate the vernacular, Ashkharhabar, to the dignity of a modern literary language, in contrast to the now-anachronistic Grabar. Numerous dialects existed in the traditional Armenian regions, which, different as they were, had certain morphological and phonetic features in common. On the basis of these features two major standards emerged:



  • Western standard: The influx of immigrants from different parts of the traditional Armenian homeland to Constantinople crystallized the common elements of the regional dialects, paving the way to a style of writing that required a shorter and more flexible learning curve than Grabar.

  • Eastern standard: The Yerevan dialect provided the primary elements of Eastern Armenian, centered in Tbilisi, Georgia. Similar to the Western Armenian variant, the Modern Eastern was in many ways more practical and accessible to the masses than Grabar.


Both centers vigorously pursued the promotion of Ashkharhabar. The proliferation of newspapers in both versions (Eastern & Western) and the development of a network of schools where modern Armenian was taught, dramatically increased the rate of literacy (in spite of the obstacles by the colonial administrators), even in remote rural areas. The emergence of literary works entirely written in the modern versions increasingly legitimized the language's existence. By the turn of the 20th century both varieties of the one modern Armenian language prevailed over Grabar and opened the path to a new and simplified grammatical structure of the language in the two different cultural spheres. Apart from several morphological, phonetic, and grammatical differences, the largely common vocabulary and generally analogous rules of grammatical fundamentals allows users of one variant to understand the other as long as they are fluent in one of the literary standards.[56]


After World War I, the existence of the two modern versions of the same language was sanctioned even more clearly. The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1990) used Eastern Armenian as its official language, whereas the diaspora created after the Armenian Genocide preserved the Western Armenian dialect.



Modern changes[edit]




Armenian language road sign.


The two modern literary dialects, Western (originally associated with writers in the Ottoman Empire) and Eastern (originally associated with writers in the Russian Empire), removed almost all of their Turkish lexical influences in the 20th century, primarily following the Armenian Genocide.[57]



Phonology[edit]


Proto-Indo-European voiceless stop consonants are aspirated in the Proto-Armenian language, one of the circumstances that is often linked to the glottalic theory, a version of which postulated that the voiceless occlusives of Proto-Indo-European were aspirated.[58]



Stress[edit]


In Armenian, the stress falls on the last syllable unless the last syllable contains the definite article [ə] or [n], and the possessive articles ս and դ, in which case it falls on the penultimate one. For instance, [ɑχɔɾˈʒɑk], [mɑʁɑdɑˈnɔs], [giˈni] but [vɑˈhɑgən] and [ˈdɑʃtə]. Exceptions to this rule are some words with the final letter է (ե in the reformed orthography) (մի՛թէ, մի՛գուցե, ո՛րեւէ) and sometimes the ordinal numerals (վե՛ցերորդ, տա՛սներորդ, etc.), as well as նաեւ, նամանաւանդ, հիմա, այժմ, and a small number of other words.



Vowels[edit]
































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Modern Armenian has six monophthongs. Each vowel phoneme in the table is represented by three symbols. The first indicates the phoneme's pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). After that appears the corresponding letter of the Armenian alphabet. The last symbol is its Latin transliteration (according to ISO 9985).






























Armenian vowel phonemes[59]


Front

Central

Back

Close
/i/
ի
i

/u/
ու
u

Mid
/ɛ/
ե, է
e, ē
/ə/
ը
ë
/ɔ/
ո, օ
o, ò

Open
 
 
/ɑ/
ա
a


Consonants[edit]


The following table lists the Eastern Armenian consonantal system. The occlusives and affricates have a special aspirated series (transcribed with an apostrophe after the letter): p’, t’, c’, k’ (but č). Each phoneme in the table is represented by three symbols. The first indicates the phoneme's pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), after that appears the corresponding letter of the Armenian alphabet, and the last symbol is its Romanization according to ISO 9985 (1996).









































































































































Eastern Armenian consonant phonemes[60]


Labials

Dental/
Alveolar

Postalveolar

Palatal

Velar

Uvular

Glottal

Nasal

/m/ մ – m

/n/ ն – n



[ŋ]



Stop

voiceless

/p/ պ – p

/t/ տ – t



/k/ կ – k



voiced

/b/ բ – b

/d/ դ – d



/ɡ/ գ – g



aspirated

/pʰ/ փ – p’

/tʰ/ թ – t’



/kʰ/ ք – k’



Affricate

voiceless


/t͡s/ ծ – ç

/t͡ʃ/ ճ – č̣





voiced


/d͡z/ ձ – j

/d͡ʒ/ ջ – ǰ





aspirated


/t͡sʰ/ ց – c’

/t͡ʃʰ/ չ – č





Fricative

voiceless

/f/ ֆ – f

/s/ ս – s

/ʃ/ շ – š


/x ~ χ/1խ – x

/h/ հ – h

voiced

/v/ վ – v

/z/ զ – z

/ʒ/ ժ – ž


/ɣ ~ ʁ/1ղ – ġ


Approximant

[ʋ]

/l/ լ – l


/j/ յ – y




Trill


/r/ ռ – ṙ






Flap


/ɾ/ ր – r






  1. Sources differ on the place of articulation of these consonants.

The major phonetic difference between dialects is in the reflexes of Classical Armenian voice-onset time. The seven dialect types have the following correspondences, illustrated with the t–d series:[61]












































Correspondence in initial position

Indo-European
*d
*
*t

Sebastia

d





Yerevan

t

Istanbul

d

Kharberd, Middle Armenian

d

t

Malatya, SWA



Classical Armenian, Agulis, SEA

t

d

Van, Artsakh

t


Morphology[edit]


Armenian corresponds with other Indo-European languages in its structure, but it shares distinctive sounds and features of its grammar with neighboring languages of the Caucasus region. Armenian is rich in combinations of consonants.[62][63] Both classical Armenian and the modern spoken and literary dialects have a complicated system of noun declensions, with six or seven noun cases but no gender. In modern Armenian, the use of auxiliary verbs to show tense (comparable to will in "he will go") has generally supplemented the inflected verbs of Classical Armenian. Negative verbs are conjugated differently from positive ones (as in English "he goes" and "he does not go") in many tenses, otherwise adding only the negative չ to the positive conjugation. Grammatically, early forms of Armenian had much in common with classical Greek and Latin, but the modern language, like modern Greek, has undergone many transformations, adding some analytic features.



Noun[edit]


Classical Armenian has no grammatical gender, not even in the pronoun, but there is a feminine suffix (-ուհի "-uhi"). For example, ուսուցիչ (usuts'ich, "teacher") becomes ուսուցչուհի (usuts'chuhi, female teacher). This suffix, however, does not have a grammatical effect on the sentence. The nominal inflection, however, preserves several types of inherited stem classes. Nouns are declined for one of seven cases: nominative (ուղղական uxxakan), accusative (հայցական hayc'akan), locative (ներգոյական nergoyakan), genitive (սեռական seṙakan), dative (տրական trakan), ablative (բացառական bac'aṙakan), or instrumental (գործիական gorciakan).


Examples of noun declension in Eastern Armenian














































Հեռախոս Heṙaxos (telephone)
Case
Singular
Plural

Nominative

հեռախոս(ը-ն)*
heṙaxos(ë-n)*

հեռախոսներ(ը-ն)*
heṙaxosner(ë-n)*

Accusative

հեռախոսը(-ն)*
heṙaxosë(-n)*

հեռախոսները(-ն)*
heṙaxosnerë(-n)*

Genitive

հեռախոսի
heṙaxosi

հեռախոսների
heṙaxosneri

Dative

հեռախոսին
heṙaxosin

հեռախոսներին
heṙaxosnerin

Ablative

հեռախոսից
heṙaxosic'

հեռախոսներից
heṙaxosneric'

Instrumental

հեռախոսով
heṙaxosov

հեռախոսներով
heṙaxosnerov

Locative

հեռախոսում
heṙaxosum

հեռախոսներում
heṙaxosnerum









































Մայր Mayr (mother)
Case
Singular
Plural

Nominative

մայր(ը-ն)*
mayr(ë-n)*

մայրեր(ը-ն)*
mayrer(ë-n)*

Accusative

մայրը(-ն)*
mayrë(-n)*

մայրերը(-ն)*
mayrerë(-n)*

Genitive

մոր
mor

մայրերի
mayreri

Dative

մորը(-ն)*
morë(-n)*

մայրերին
mayrerin

Ablative

մորից
moric'

մայրերից
mayreric'

Instrumental

մորով
morov

մայրերով
mayrerov

Animate nouns do not decline for locative case.















































Հանրապետություն Hanrapetut'yun (republic)
Case
Singular
Plural

Nominative

հանրապետություն(ը-ն)*
hanrapetut'yun(ë-n)*

հանրապետություններ(ը-ն)*
hanrapetut'yunner(ë-n)*

Accusative

հանրապետությունը(-ն)*
hanrapetut'yunë(-n)*

հանրապետությունները(-ն)*
hanrapetut'yunnerë(-n)*

Genitive

հանրապետության
hanrapetut'yan

հանրապետությունների
hanrapetut'yunneri

Dative

հանրապետությանը(-ն)*
hanrapetut'yanë(-n)*

հանրապետություններին
hanrapetut'yunnerin

Ablative

հանրապետությունից
hanrapetut'yunic'

հանրապետություններից
hanrapetut'yunneric'

Instrumental

հանրապետությամբ
hanrapetut'yamb

հանրապետություններով
hanrapetut'yunnerov

Locative

հանրապետությունում
hanrapetut'yunum

հանրապետություններում
hanrapetut'yunnerum

Examples of noun declension in Western Armenian









































 

դաշտ / tašd (field)

կով / gov (cow)
singular
plural
singular
plural
Nom-Acc (Ուղղական-Հայցական)
դաշտ / tašd
դաշտեր / tašder
կով / gov
կովեր / gover
Gen-Dat (Սեռական-Տրական)
դաշտի / tašdi
դաշտերու / tašderu
կովու / govu
կովերու / goveru
Abl (Բացառական)
դաշտէ / tašde
դաշտերէ / tašdere
կովէ / gove
կովերէ / govere
Instr (Գործիական)
դաշտով / tašdov
դաշտերով / tašderov
կովով / govov
կովերով / goverov




















































 

գարուն / karun (Spring)

օր / or (day)

Քոյր / kuyr (sister)
singular
plural
singular
plural
singular
plural
Nom-Acc (Ուղղական-Հայցական)
գարուն
karun
գարուններ
karunner
օր
or
օրեր
orer
քոյր
kuyr
քոյրեր
kuyrer
Gen-Dat (Սեռական-Տրական)
գարնան
karnan
գարուններու
karunneru
օրուայ
oruay
օրերու
oreru
քրոջ
kr
քոյրերու
kuyreru
Abl (Բացառական)
գարունէ
karune
գարուններէ
karunnere
օրուընէ
oruəne
օրերէ
orere
քրոջմէ
kročme
քոյրերէ
kuyrere
Instr (Գործիական)
գարունով
karunov
գարուններով
karunnerov
օրով
orov
օրերով
orerov
քրոջմով
kročmov
քոյրերով
kuyrerov




















































 

հայր / hayr (father)

Աստուած / Asdvadz (God)

գիտութիւն / kidutiun (science)
singular
plural
singular
plural
singular
plural
Nom-Acc (Ուղղական-Հայցական)
հայր
hayr
հայրեր
hayrer
Աստուած
Asdvadz
աստուածներ
asdvadzner
գիտութիւն
kidutiun
գիտութիւններ
kidutiunner
Gen-Dat (Սեռական-Տրական)
հոր
hor
հայրերու
hayreru
Աստուծոյ
Asdudzuy
աստուածներու
asdvadzneru
գիտութեան
kidutean
գիտութիւններու
kidutiunneru
Abl (Բացառական)
հորմէ
horme
հայրերէ
hayrere
Աստուծմէ
Asdudzme
աստուածներէ
asdvadznere
գիտութենէ
kidutene
գիտութիւններէ
kidutiunnere
Instr (Գործիական)
հորմով
hormov
հայրերով
hayrerov
Աստուծմով
Asdudzmov
աստուածներով
asdvadznerov
գիտութեամբ /
գիտութիւնով
kiduteamp /
kidutiunov
գիտութիւններով
kidutiunnerov


Verb[edit]



Verbs in Armenian have an expansive system of conjugation with two main verb types in Eastern Armenian and three in Western Armenian changing form based on tense, mood and aspect.



Dialects[edit]





Map of the Armenian dialects in early 20th century:

  -owm dialects, nearly corresponding to Eastern Armenian

  -el dialects (intermediate)

  -gë dialects, nearly corresponding to Western Armenian



Armenian is a pluricentric language, having two modern standardized forms: Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian. The most distinctive feature of Western Armenian is that it has undergone several phonetic mergers; these may be due to proximity to Arabic- and Turkish-speaking communities.


For example, Eastern Armenian speakers pronounce (թ) as [tʰ], (դ) as [d], and (տ) as a tenuis occlusive [t˭]. Western Armenian has simplified the occlusive system into a simple division between voiced occlusives and aspirated ones; the first series corresponds to the tenuis series of Eastern Armenian, and the second corresponds to the Eastern voiced and aspirated series. Thus, the Western dialect pronounces both (թ) and (դ) as [tʰ], and the (տ) letter as [d].


There is no precise linguistic border between one dialect and another because there is nearly always a dialect transition zone of some size between pairs of geographically identified dialects.


Armenian can be divided into two major dialectal blocks and those blocks into individual dialects, though many of the Western Armenian dialects have become extinct due to the effects of the Armenian Genocide. In addition, neither dialect is completely homogeneous: any dialect can be subdivided into several subdialects. Although Western and Eastern Armenian are often described as different dialects of the same language, many subdialects are not readily mutually intelligible. Nevertheless, a fluent speaker of one of two greatly varying dialects who is also literate in one of the standards, when exposed to the other dialect for a period of time will be able to understand the other with relative ease.


Distinct Western Armenian varieties currently in use include Homshetsi, spoken by the Hemshin people;[64] the dialects of Armenians of Kessab (Քեսապի բարբառ), Latakia and Jisr al-Shughur (Syria), Anjar, Lebanon, and Vakıflı, Samandağ (Turkey), part of the "Sueidia" dialect (Սուէտիայի բարբառ).


Forms of the Karin dialect of Western Armenian are spoken by several hundred thousand people in Northern Armenia, mostly in Gyumri, Artik, Akhuryan, and around 130 villages in Shirak Province,[65] and by Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakheti province of Georgia (Akhalkalaki, Akhaltsikhe).[66]


Nakhichevan-on-Don Armenians speak another Western Armenian variety based on the dialect of Armenians in Crimea, where they came from in order to establish the town and surrounding villages in 1779 (Նոր Նախիջևանի բարբառ).


Western Armenian dialects are currently spoken also in Gavar (formerly Nor Bayazet and Kamo, on the west of Lake Sevan), Aparan, and Talin in Armenia (Mush dialect), and by the large Armenian population residing in Abkhazia, where they are considered to be the first or second ethnic minority, or even equal in number to the local Abkhaz population[67]

























































































































Examples
English

Eastern Armenian

Western Armenian
Yes
Ayo (այո)
Ayo (այո)
No
Voč' (ոչ)
Voč' (ոչ)
I see you
K'ez em tesnum (քեզ եմ տեսնում)
Gdesnem kez(i) (կը տեսնեմ քեզ(ի))
Hello
Barev (բարև)
Parev (բարեւ)
I'm going
Gnum em (գնում եմ)
Gertam (gor) (կ՚երթամ (կոր))
Come!
Ari! (արի՛)
Yegur! (եկո՛ւր)
I will eat
Utelu em (ուտելու եմ)
Bidi udem (պիտի ուտեմ)
I must do
Piti anem (պիտի անեմ)
Enelu em (ընելու եմ)
I was going to eat
Utelu ei (ուտելու էի)
Bidi udei (պիտի ուտէի)
Is this yours?
Sa k'onn e? (սա քո՞նն է)
Asiga k'ugt e? (ասիկա քո՞ւկդ է)
His granma
Nra tatikə (նրա տատիկը)
Anor nenen/mecmaman (անոր նէնէն/մեծմաման)
Look at that one!
Dran nayir (դրան նայիր)
Ador naye (ատոր նայէ)
Have you brought these?
Du es berel sranc'? (դո՞ւ ես բերել սրանց)
Tun perir asonk? (դո՞ւն բերիր ասոնք)
How are you? I'm OK.
Vonc' es? Voč'inč' (Ո՞նց ես։ Ոչինչ։)
Inč'bes es? Lav (Ինչպէ՞ս ես։ Լաւ։)
Did you say it? Say it!
Asac'ir? Asa! (Ասացի՞ր։ Ասա՛։)
əsir? əse! (Ըսի՞ր։ Ըսէ՛։)
Have you taken it from us?
Mezanic' es arel? (մեզանի՞ց ես առել)
Mezme arac es? (մեզմէ՞ առած ես)
Good morning
Bari louys (բարի լույս)
Pari louys (բարի լոյս)
Good evening
Bari yereko (բարի երեկո)
Pari irigoun (բարի իրիկուն)
Good night
Bari gišer (բարի գիշեր)
Kišer pari (գիշեր բարի)
You love me
Siroum es inc' (սիրում ես ինձ)
Zis gë sires (զիս կը սիրես)
I am Armenian
Yes hay em (ես հայ եմ)
Yes hay em (ես հայ եմ)
I missed you
Karotel em k'ez (կարոտել եմ քեզ)
K'ez garodtser em (քեզ կարօտցեր եմ)


Orthography[edit]





Armenian keyboard layout using the Armenian alphabet.


The Armenian alphabet (Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, translit. Hayots grer or Armenian: Հայոց այբուբեն, translit. Hayots aybuben) is a graphically unique alphabetical writing system that is used to write the Armenian language. It was introduced around AD 405 by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical leader, and originally contained 36 letters. Two more letters, օ (o) and ֆ (f), were added in the Middle Ages.
During the 1920s orthography reform in Soviet Armenia, a new letter և (capital ԵՎ) was added, which was a ligature before ե+ւ, whereas the letter Ւ ւ was discarded and reintroduced as part of a new letter ՈՒ ու (which was a digraph before). This alphabet and associated orthography is used by most Armenian speakers of the Republic of Armenia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Neither the alphabet nor the orthography has been adopted by Diaspora Armenians, including Eastern Armenian speakers of Iran and all Western Armenian speakers, who keep using the traditional alphabet and spelling.



Indo-European cognates[edit]


Armenian is an Indo-European language, so many of its Proto-Indo-European-descended words are cognates of words in other Indo-European languages such as English, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. This table lists only some of the more recognizable cognates that Armenian shares with English (more specifically, with English words descended from Old English). (Source: Online Etymology Dictionary.[68])





































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Armenian English Latin Persian Classical and Hellenistic Greek Sanskrit Russian Old Irish
PIE
մայր mayr "mother"
mother ( ← OE mōdor)

māter "mother"
مادر mɒdær "mother" μήτηρ mētēr "mother" मातृ mātṛ "mother" мать mat'

máthair "mother"

*máH₂ter- "mother"
հայր hayr "father"
father ( ← OE fæder)

pater "father"
پدر pedær "father" πατήρ patēr "father" पितृ pitṛ "father" папа

papa



athair "father"

*pH₂tér- "father"
եղբայր eġbayr "brother"
brother ( ← OE brōþor)

frāter "brother"
برادر bærɒdær "brother" φράτηρ phrātēr "brother" भ्रातृ bhrātṛ "brother" брат brat

bráthair "brother"

*bʱráH₂ter- "brother"
դուստր dustr "daughter"
daughter ( ← OE dohtor)
(Oscan futrei "daughter") دختر doxtær "daughter" θυγάτηρ thugatēr "daughter" दुहितृ duhitṛ "daughter" дочь doč'

der, Dar- "daughter (of)"

*dʱugH₂-tér- "daughter"
կին kin "woman"
queen ( ← OE cwēn "queen, woman, wife")
کیانه kianæ "woman, wife" γυνή gunē "a woman, a wife" ग्ना gnā/ जनि jani "woman" жена žena "wife"
ben "woman"

*gʷén-eH₂- "woman, wife"
իմ im "my"
my, mine ( ← OE min)

me-us, -a, -um etc. "my"
من/ـم mæn/æm "my" ἐμ-ός, -ή, -όν em-os, , -on etc. "my, of mine" मम mama "my" мой moy

mo "my, me"

*mene- "my, mine"
անուն anun "name"
name ( ← OE nama)

nōmen "name"
نام nɒm "name" ὄνομα onoma "name" नामन् nāman "name" имя im'a

ainm "name"

*H₁noH₃m-n̥- "name"
ութ utʿ "8"
eight ( ← OE eahta)

octō "eight"
هشت hæʃt "eight" ὀκτώ oktō "eight" अष्ट aṣṭa "eight" во́семь vosem'

ocht "eight"

*H₁oḱtō(u) "eight"
ինն inn "9"
nine ( ← OE nigon)

novem "nine"
نه noh "nine" ἐννέα ennea "nine" नवन् navan "nine" де́вять dev'at'

noí "nine"

*(H₁)néwn̥ "nine"
տաս tas "10"
ten ( ← OE tien) ( ← P.Gmc. *tekhan)

decem "ten"
ده dæh "ten" δέκα deka "ten" दश daśa "ten" де́сять des'at'

deich "ten"

*déḱm̥ "ten"
աչք ačʿkʿ "eye"
eye ( ← OE ēge)

oculus "eye"
ὀφθαλμός ophthalmos "eye" अक्षि akṣi "eye" око oko

*H₃okʷ- "to see"
արմունկ armunk "elbow"
arm ( ← OE earm "joined body parts below shoulder")

armus "shoulder"
آرنج ɒrendʒ "elbow" ἄρθρον arthron "a joint" ईर्म īrma "arm" рамо ramo "shoulder" (archaic)
*H₁ar-mo- "fit, join (that which is fitted together)"
ծունկ cunk[69] "knee"
knee ( ← OE cnēo)

genū "knee"
زانو zɒnu "knee" γόνυ gonu "knee" जानु jānu "knee"
glún "knee"

*ǵénu- "knee"
ոտք otkʿ "foot"
foot ( ← OE fōt)

pedis "foot"
پا، پای pɒ, pɒj "foot" πούς pous "foot" पाद् pād "foot" пята p'ata

"heel"


(Gaul. ades "feet")
*pod-, *ped- "foot"
սիրտ sirt "heart"
heart ( ← OE heorte)

cor "heart"
دل del "heart" καρδία kardia "heart" हृदय hṛdaya "heart" се́рдце serdce

cride "heart"

*ḱerd- "heart"
կաշի kaši "skin"
hide ( ← OE hȳdan "animal skin cover")

cutis "skin"
پوست pust "skin" κεύθω keuthō "I cover, I hide" कुटीर kuṭīra "hut" кожа koža
(Welsh cudd "hiding place")
*keu- "to cover, conceal"
մուկ muk "mouse"
mouse ( ← OE mūs)

mūs "mouse"
موش musc "mouse" μῦς mūs "mouse" मूष् mūṣ "mouse" мышь myš'

*muH₁s- "mouse, small rodent"
կով kov "cow"
cow ( ← OE )

bos "cow"
گاو gɒv "cow" βοῦς bous "cow" गो go "cow" говядина gov'adina "beef"
"cow"

*gʷou- "cow"
շուն šun "dog"
hound ( ← OE hund "hound, dog")

canis "hound, dog"
سگ sæg "dog" κύων kuōn "hound, dog" श्वन् śvan "dog" сука suka "bitch"
"dog"

*ḱwon- "hound, dog"
տարի tari "year"
year ( ← OE gēar)

hōrnus "of this year"
یاره، سال jɒre, sɒl[70] "year" ὥρα hōra "time, year" यरे yare[70] "year" яра jara "springtime" (archaic)
*yeH₁r- "year"
ամիս amis "month"
moon, month ( ← OE mōnaþ)

mēnsis "month"
ماه mɒh "moon, month" μήν mēn "moon, month" मास māsa "moon, month" месяц mes'ac

"month"

*meH₁ns- "moon, month"
ամառ amaṙ "summer"
summer ( ← OE sumor)
समा samā "season"
saṃ "summer" *sem- "hot season of the year"
ջերմ ǰerm "warm"
warm ( ← OE wearm)

formus "warm"
گرم gærm "warm" θερμός thermos "warm" घर्म gharma "heat" жарко žarko "hot"
geirid "warm (v)"

*gʷʰerm- "warm"
լույս luys "light"
light ( ← OE lēoht "brightness")

lux "light"
روز ruz "day" λευκός leukos "bright, shining, white" लोक loka "shining" луч luč' "beam"
lóch "bright"

*leuk- "light, brightness"
հուր hur "flame"
fire ( ← OE fȳr)
(Umbrian pir "fire") آذر، آدور ɒzær, ɒdur "fire" πῦρ pur "fire" पु pu "fire"
*péH₂wr̥- "fire"
հեռու heṙu "far"
far ( ← OE feor "to a great distance")

per "through"
فرا færɒ "beyond" πέρα pera "beyond" परस् paras "beyond" пере- pere-, про- pro-

ír "further"

*per- "through, across, beyond"
հեղել heġel "to pour"
flow ( ← OE flōwan)

pluĕre "to rain"
پور pur "pour" πλύνω plunō "I wash" प्लु plu "to swim" плавать plavat' "swim"
luí "rudder"

*pleu- "flow, float"
ուտել utel "to eat"
eat ( ← OE etan)

edō "I eat"
هور hvor "eat" ἔδω edō "I eat" अद्मि admi "I eat" есть jest'

ithid "eat"

*ed- "to eat"
գիտեմ gitem "I know"
wit ( ← OE wit, witan "intelligence, to know")

vidēre "to see"
ویده vidæ "knowledge" εἰδέναι eidenai "to know" विद् vid "to know" видеть videt' "see, understand"
adfet "tells"

*weid- "to know, to see"
գետ get "river"
water ( ← OE wæter)
(Umbrian utur "water") رود rud "river" ὕδωρ hudōr "water" उदन् udan "water" вода voda

uisce "water"

(*wodor, *wedor, *uder-) from *wed- "water"
գործ gorc[69] "work "
work ( ← OE weorc)

urgēre "push, drive"
کار kɒr "work" ἔργον ergon "work" वर्चस् varcas "activity"
*werǵ- "to work"
մեծ mec[69] "great "
much ( ← OE mycel "great, big, many")

magnus "great"
مه، مهست meh, mæhest "great, large" μέγας megas "great, large" महति mahati "great" много mnogo "many"
maige "great, mighty"

*meǵ- "great"
անծանոթ ancanotʿ[69] "stranger, unfamiliar"
unknown[71] ( ← OE uncnawen)

ignōtus[71] "unknown"
ἄγνωστος agnōstos[71] "unknown" अज्ञात ajñāta[71] "unfamiliar" незнакомый neznakomyj

*n- + *ǵneH₃- "not" + "to know"
մեռած meṙac "dead"
murder ( ← OE morþor)

mors "death"
مرگ mærg "death" / مرده morde "dead" βροτός brotos "mortal" मृत mṛta "dead" смерть smert'

"death"



marb "dead"

*mrtro-, from (*mor-, *mr-) "to die"
միջին miǰin "middle"
mid, middle ( ← OE mid, middel)

medius "middle"
میان miɒn "middle" μέσος mesos "middle" मध्य madhya "middle" между meždu "between"
mide "middle"

*medʱyo- from *me- "mid, middle"
այլ ayl "other"
else ( ← OE elles "other, otherwise, different")

alius "other"
ἄλλος allos "other, another" अन्य anya "other" иной

inoj



aile "other"

*al- "beyond, other"
նոր nor "new"
new ( ← OE nīwe)

novus "new"
نو now "new" νέος neos "new" नव nava "new" новый novyj

núae "new"

*néwo- "new"
դուռ duṙ "door"
door ( ← OE dor, duru)

fores "door"
در dær "door" θύρα thurā "door" द्वार dvāra "door" дверь dver'

dorus "door"

*dʱwer- "door, doorway, gate"
տուն tun "house"
timber ( ← OE timber "trees used for building material, structure")

domus "house"
مان، خانه mɒn, xɒne "home" δόμος domos "house" दम dama "house" дом dom

dún "fort" (Welsh dinas "city")

*domo-, *domu- "house"
բերրի berri, berel "fertile, to carry"
bear ( ← OE beran "give birth, carry")

ferre "to bear"
بردن، برـ bordæn, bær- "to bear, carry" φέρειν pherein "to bear, carry" भरति bharati "he/she/it carries" брать brat' "to take"
beirid "carry"

*bʱer- "to bear, to carry"


See also[edit]




  • Portal-puzzle.svg Armenian language portal

  • Language families and languages

  • List of Indo-European languages

  • Classical Armenian orthography

  • Auguste Carrière



Notes[edit]





  1. ^ Armenian has no legal status in Samtske-Javakheti, but it is widely spoken by its Armenian population, which is concentrated in Ninotsminda and Akhalkalaki districts (over 90% of the total population in these two districts).[10] There were 144 state-funded schools in the region as of 2010 where Armenian is the main language of instruction.[11][12]


  2. ^ The Lebanese government recognizes Armenian as a minority language,[13] particularly for educational purposes.[14][15]


  3. ^ In education, according to the Treaty of Lausanne[16][17]


  4. ^ Various state government agencies in California provide Armenian translations of their documents, namely the California Department of Social Services,[18]California Department of Motor Vehicles,[19] and California superior courts.[20] In the city of Glendale, there are street signs in Armenian.[21][22]




Footnotes[edit]





  1. ^ "Armenian language". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 30, 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Eastern Armenian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Western Armenian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Classical Armenian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Middle Armenian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)



  3. ^ "Implementation of the Charter in Cyprus". Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Archived from the original on 24 October 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2014.


  4. ^ "Implementation of the Charter in Hungary". Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.


  5. ^ "Iraqi Constitution: Article 4" (PDF). The Republic of Iraq Ministry of Interior General Directorate for Nationality. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2014. The right of Iraqis to educate their children in their mother tongue, such as Turkmen, Syriac, and Armenian shall be guaranteed in government educational institutions in accordance with educational guidelines, or in any other language in private educational institutions.


  6. ^ https://news.am/eng/news/244068.html


  7. ^ "Territorial languages in the Republic of Poland" (PDF). Strasbourg: European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. 30 September 2010. p. 9. Retrieved 16 June 2014.


  8. ^ "Implementation of the Charter in Romania". Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2014.


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  12. ^ Mezhdoyan, Slava (28 November 2012). "Challenges and problems of the Armenian community of Georgia" (PDF). Tbilisi: European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy. Retrieved 26 May 2014. Armenian schools in Georgia are fully funded by the government ...


  13. ^ "About Lebanon". Central Administration of Statistics of the Republic of Lebanon. Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Other Languages: French, English and Armenian


  14. ^ "Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention. Third periodic reports of states parties due in 2003: Lebanon" (PDF). Committee on the Rights of the Child. 25 October 2005. p. 108. Retrieved 26 May 2014. Right of minorities to learn their language. The Lebanese curriculum allows Armenian schools to teach the Armenian language as a basic language.


  15. ^ Sanjian, Ara. "Armenians and the 2000 Parliamentary Elections in Lebanon". Armenian News Network / Groong. University of Southern California. Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Moreover, the Lebanese government approved a plan whereby the Armenian language was to be considered from now on as one of the few 'second foreign languages' that students can take as part of the official Lebanese secondary school certificate (Baccalaureate) exams.


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  18. ^ "Armenian Translations". California Department of Social Services. Archived from the original on 26 May 2014.


  19. ^ "Վարորդների ձեռնարկ [Driver's Manual]" (PDF). California Department of Motor Vehicles. 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2016.


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  21. ^ Rocha, Veronica (11 January 2011). "New Glendale traffic safety warnings in English, Armenian, Spanish". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 May 2014.


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  69. ^ abcd The letter ⟨c⟩ represents /ts/. In the Armenian words cunk, gorc, mec, and ancanotʿ, it corresponds to PIE *ǵ-.


  70. ^ ab The word "yare" (year) in the Persian and Sanskrit columns is actually from an Indo-Iranian sister language called Avestan.


  71. ^ abcd The prefix for "not" in English is "un-", "i(n)-" in Latin, "a(n)- or nē-" in Greek and "a(n)-" in Sanskrit, which correspond to the PIE *n-.




References[edit]


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  • Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009), Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company


  • Fortson, Benjamin W. (2004), Indo-European Language and Culture, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing


  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1875), "Über die Stellung des armenischen im Kreise der indogermanischen Sprachen", Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, 23: 5–42, archived from the original on 2005-12-21




  • Price, G. (1998), Encyclopedia of European languages, Oxford University Press




Further reading[edit]





  • Adjarian, Herchyah H. (1909) Classification des dialectes arméniens, par H. Adjarian. Paris: Honoro Champion.

  • Clackson, James. 1994. The Linguistic Relationship Between Armenian and Greek. London: Publications of the Philological Society, No 30. (and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing)

  • Holst, Jan Henrik (2009) Armenische Studien. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.


  • Mallory, J. P. (1989) In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames & Hudson.


  • Vaux, Bert. 1998. The Phonology of Armenian. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  • Vaux, Bert. 2002. "The Armenian dialect of Jerusalem." in Armenians in the Holy Land. "Louvain: Peters.




External links[edit]













  • Armenian Lessons (free online through the Linguistics Research Center at UT Austin)


  • Armenian Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)

  • ARMENIA AND IRAN iv. History, discussion, and the presentation of Iranian influences in Armenian Language over the millennia


  • Nayiri.com (Library of Armenian dictionaries)


  • dictionaries.arnet.am Collection of Armenian XDXF and Stardict dictionaries


















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