Who had moved to Constantinople, while Eastern Armenian developedДЄmong Armenians living in Tbilisi in Georgia. Western Armenian developed among Armenians When the traditional Armenian homeland was divided between the RussianДЄnd Ottoman Empires.

The two main modern forms of Armenian emerged during the 19th century The Armenian used between about the 11th and 15th century is knownДЄnd contains more loanwords from Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Latin. Grabar continued to be used as a literary language until Parthian, and also from Greek, Syriac, Latin and other languages suchДЄs Uratian. The type of Armenian spoken and written in the 5th century is known Inscriptions dating back to the 6th century BC. Written in the 5th century AD, though the Armenians are mentioned in Not much is known about the Armenian language before it was first Semi-official or de facto status in Georgia, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran and the USA (California).

Recognised minority language in Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania and Ukraine.

Status: official language in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Spoken in: Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic, Russia, Lebannon, the USA, Georgia, Iran, France, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Canada, Greece, Jordan, Egypt, Bulgaria, Israel, Poland, Cyprus and Palestine.

Language family: Indo-European, Armenian.

In 2010 Russian language education was reintroduced in Armenia. Until the the early 1990s schools in Armenian taught in either Armenian or Russian, however after the collapse of the USSR, Armenian became the main medium of instruction and the Russian-medium schools were closed. ДЄrmenian is the offical language of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and has official status as a minority language in Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. The total number of speakers is about 1.2 million. The total number of speakers is about 3.8 million. There are also about 660,000 speakers of Eastern Armenian in the Dagestan Republic of the Russian Federation, 120,000 in Azerbaijan, and 100,000 in Iran.

To educated speakers of either variety the other is more or less mutually intelligible.Д®astern Armenian has 2.9 million speakers in Armenia, where it is the official and most commonly-spoken language. There are two main varieties of Armenian: Eastern Armenian (ХЎЦЂЦ‡ХҐХ¬ХЎХ°ХЎХµХҐЦЂХҐХ¶) and Western Armenian (ХЎЦЂХҐЦ‚ХґХїХЎХ°ХЎХµХҐЦЂХ§Х¶). It is not closely related to any other languages. There are also Armenian speakers in many other countries, including Russia, Lebanon, the USA, Georgia, Iran, France, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.ДЄrmenian belongs to its own independent branch of the Indo-European language family.

This area is also known as the Republic of Artsakh (Ф±ЦЂЦЃХЎХХ« ХЂХЎХ¶ЦЂХЎХєХҐХїХёЦ‚Х©ХµХёЦ‚Х¶), and is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan. Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in Armenia (ХЂХЎХµХЎХЅХїХЎХ¶ ) and in Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto, though unrecognised, independent republic in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus.

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