Armenian, Eastern
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- Language: Armenian, Eastern
- Alternate names: HAIEREN, SOMKHURI, ENA, ERMENICE, ERMENI DILI, ARMJANSKI YAZYK
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:hye
- Language family: Indo-European, Armenian
- Number of speakers: 5500000
- Script: -
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Introduction
Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic) and also used by the Armenian Diaspora. It is its own independent branch of the family of the Indo-European languages, with no living close relatives. Many now believe that Armenian is a close relative of the extinct Phrygian language. From the modern languages Greek seems to be the most closely related to Armenian. Armenian also contains many loanwords from Persian, which is also an Indo-European language
While it contains many Indo-European roots, its phonology has been influenced by neighboring Caucasian languages, so that it shares a three-way distinction between voiceless, voiced, and ejective stops and fricatives.
The content of this page is machine-generated from a Verbix language extension file (armenian.xml). Language extension files add new languages in Verbix for Windows.
