Languages of Armenia

National or official language: Armenian. 3,536,000 (1998 UN). Formerly part of USSR. Capital: Erevan. 11,306 square miles. Literacy rate 99%. Also includes Georgian 1,314, Greek 4,700, Karachay-Balkar 983, Russian 70,000, Ukrainian 8,000. Data accuracy estimate: B. The number of languages listed for Armenia is 6. Of those, all are living languages. Diversity index 0.16.

Spoken living languages

ARMENIAN

[ARM] 3,197,000 in Armenia (1993 Johnstone). 91% of the ethnic group in the former USSR spoke it as mother tongue (1979 census). Population total all countries 6,000,000 (1999 WA). Alternate names: HAIEREN, SOMKHURI, ENA, ERMENICE, ERMENI DILI, ARMJANSKI YAZYK. Dialects: EASTERN ARMENIAN, EREVAN (ERIWAN), TBILISI (TIFLIS), KARABAGH, SHAMAKHI (SCHAMACHI), ASTRAKHAN (ASTRACHAN), DZHULFA (DSCHUGHA, DSCHULFA), AGULIS, KHVOY-SALMST (CHOI-SALMST), URMIA-MARAGHEH (URMIA-MARAGHA), ARTVIN (ARTWIN), KARIN (ERZURUM, ERZERUM), MUS (MUSCH), VAN (WAN), TIGRANAKERT (DIYARBAKIR, DIARBEKIR), KHARBERD (CHARBERD, ERZINCAN, ERZENKA), SHABIN-KARAHISSAR (SCHABIN-KARAHISSAR), TRABZON (TRAPEZUNT), HAMSHEN (HAMSCHEN), MALATYA (MALATIA), KILIKIEN, SYRIA (SYRIEN), ARABKIR, AKN, SEBASTE, EWDOKIA (TOKAT), SMYRNA (IZMIR), NORTH KOMEDIA, CONSTANTINOPLE (KONSTANTINOPEL, ISTANBUL), RODOSTO, CRIMEA (KRIM), ASHKHARIK. Classification: Indo-European, Armenian.
 

ASSYRIAN NEO-ARAMAIC

[AII] 3,000 speakers in Armenia (1999) out of a reported population of 15,000. Erevan and scattered throughout Transcaucasia. Alternate names: AISORSKI. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, Aramaic, Eastern, Central, Northeastern.
 

AZERBAIJANI, NORTH

[AZE] 161,000 in Armenia (1993 Johnstone). In southern Dagestan, along the Caspian coast and beyond the Caucasian Mts. Alternate names: AZERI TURK, TURKLER, AZERBAYDZHANI. Dialects: KUBA, DERBENT, BAKU, SEMAKHA, SALIANY, LENKORAN, KAZAKH, AIRYM, BORCALA, TEREKEME, KYZYLBASH, NUKHA, ZAKATALY (MUGALY), KUTKASEN, EREVAN, NAKHICHEVAN, ORDUBAD, KIROVABAD, SUSA (KARABAKH), KARAPAPAK. Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Azerbaijani.
 

KURMANJI

[KUR] 58,000 in Armenia, including Yezid (1993 Johnstone), 84% speak it as mother tongue (1979). Alternate names: NORTHERN KURDISH, KERMANJI, KIRMANJI. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Kurdish.
 

LOMAVREN

[RMI] Armenia, southern Caucasus. Also spoken in Azerbaijan, Russia (Asia), Syria. Alternate names: ARMENIAN BOSHA, ARMENIAN BOSA, BOSHA, BOSA. Classification: Indo-European, Armenian.
 

Deaf sign languages

ARMENIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

[AEN] Classification: Deaf sign language.

 

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