Language/Armenian
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Facts about Armenian[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
hye - Autonyms (how to write "Armenian" in Armenian):
Հայերէն / Հայերեն - Other names for "Armenian":
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Haieren, Somkhuri, Armjanski, Armani, Erâmani, Somekhuri, Armanski - The Armenian language is spoken in:
Armenia - Spoken by: 5 and 7 million people
Armenian is a language which constitutes in itself a branch of the Indo-European language family, being the only one of this family to be more agglutinating than inflectional.
- Classical Armenian (or Grabar: in Armenian Գրաբար, literally "written language") is attested from the fifth century and carries a rich theological, historical, poetic, mystical and epic literature.
- Eastern Armenian, the official language of the Republic of Armenia, spoken by the inhabitants of Armenia and the Armenian communities of Iran and Russia.
- Western Armenian, spoken by the Armenian diaspora, coexist. 2,960,000 people speak it in Armenia in 2013, for a total of 3,843,000 worldwide.
Armenian has many similarities with ancient Greek (etymological parallels, use of the augment, particular treatment of laryngeal Indo-European, etc.), as pointed out by the French linguist Antoine Meillet. On the other hand, the consonants of Proto-Armenian underwent the first consonant mutation (Grimm's law), which brings it closer to Germanic languages for its phonological physiognomy.
Sources[edit | edit source]
Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Nayiri: Dictionary of the Armenian language, by Antranig Granian (1998) & Comprehensive dictionary Armenian-English, by Mesrob Kouyoumdjian (1970)
• Arak-29: etymological dictionary
• Isma: Armenian-English dictionary & translation
• Hayastan.com: Armenian-English dictionary
• Calfa.fr: Classical Armenian dictionaries (5th-19th centuries), Armenian-English dictionary (Matthias Bedrossian) & Armenian-French dictionary
• Dictionnaires-Machtotz.org: Armenian dictionary, Armenian-English dictionary & Armenian-French dictionary
• digital dictionaries: fist names, synonyms, rhyms…
• Nayiri: Armenian dictionary, Armenian-English dictionary & Armenian-French dictionary
• Loecsen: Armenian-English common phrases (+ audio)
• Goethe-Verlag: Armenian-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)
• Culinar termes: French-Western Armenian-English vocabulary (2015)
• My first book of Armenian words (2001)
• Armenian-English dictionary by Matthias Bedrossian (1875)
• A dictionary English and Armenian by Paschal Aucher & John Brand (1868)
• Vocabulary of words used in modern Armenian but not found in the ancient Armenian lexicons, by Elias Riggs (1847)
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Free Armenian Lessons[edit | edit source]
Language Exchange[edit | edit source]
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Marketplace[edit | edit source]
Last Lessons[edit | edit source]
Descriptive Adjectives — Traditional Music and Dance — Holidays and Celebrations — Adverbs of Time, Manner, and Place — Asking for Directions — Modes of Transportation — Common Foods — Past Tense — Present Tense — Eating Out — Describing Relationships — Noun Gender and Plurals — Family Members — Subject Verb Object — Telling Time — Numbers 1 20 — Pronunciation Rules — Armenian Alphabet — Introducing Yourself — Basic Greetings — Armenian Actors and Celebrities — Armenian Footballers and Basketball Players — Acronyms and Initialisms — Common Abbreviations — Quotation Marks and Parentheses — Question Mark and Exclamation Point — Apostrophes and Hyphens — Comma and Colon Usage — Wrestling and Weightlifting — Chess and Chess Players