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Armenian

Also known as Armenian language, Hayeren

Indo-European language

AI overview

Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken primarily by Armenian people in Armenia and diaspora communities around the world. It has its own distinct alphabet and a long literary tradition dating back to the 5th century, making it historically and culturally significant to Armenian identity.

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In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 10,492 inbound references to Armenian, and connects out to ISO 639-2, Western Armenian and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.

It is catalogued under topics including Armenian language, Armenian languages and Indo-European languages.

Vinony links it to 162 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: natural language
Subclass of: Indo-European
Country: California
Image: Manuscript arm 5-6AD.jpg

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linguistic typology: fusional language
short name: сомихаг
P13750: Armenian
has grammatical case: instrumental case
studied by: Armenian studies
Wikimedia language code: hy
writing system: Armenian alphabet
topic's main category: Category:Armenian language
Commons category: Armenian language
native label: հայերեն
category for films in this language: Category:Armenian-language films
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6700000
indigenous to: Armenians
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/HYE
P10369: Saturday
topic has template: Template:Armenian language
P8168: 113214 Vinkó
P11012: Theopompus
entry in abbreviations table: арм.
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Stack Exchange tag: linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/armenian
has tense: preterite
P13311: El Salvador

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Encyclopedic overview

Armenian (endonym: հայերեն, hayeren, pronounced [hɑjɛˈɾɛn] ) is the sole member of an independent branch in the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands, today Armenian is also widely spoken throughout the Armenian diaspora. Armenian is written in its own writing system, the Armenian alphabet, introduced in 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots. The estimated number of Armenian speakers worldwide is between five and seven million.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Armenian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.