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Name: Armenian
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Armenian (Iranian); Haieren; Somkhuri; Ermenice; Ermeni Dili; Armjanski Yazyk; Armjanski; Somekhuri; Armani; Erâmani; Armenisch; Ena; Armanski
Spoken in: Ukraine, USA, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, India, Iraq, Iran, Estonia, France, Georgia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Israel, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Canada, Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Honduras
Number of speakers: 3,140,000 in Armenia (2001 census). Population total all countries: 6,376,520 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 250000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 6723840 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: hye
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language: Middle Armenian (axm)
Child Dialects: Trabzon; Trapezunt (hye-tra) Rodosto (hye-rod) Artvin; Artwin (hye-art) Kilikien (hye-kil) Crimea; Krim (hye-cri) Tigranakert; Diyarbakir; Diarbekir (hye-tig) Astrakhan; Astrachan; Astrakhân (hye-ast) Malatya; Malatia (hye-mal) Tbilisi; Tiflis (hye-tbi) Ewdokia; Tokat (hye-ewd) Karabagh (hye-krb) Arabkir (hye-ara) Shamakhi; Schamachi (hye-shm) Karabagh Shamakhi (hye-kar) Ashkharik (hye-ash) Urmia-Maragheh; Urmia-Maragha (hye-uma) Eastern Armenian; Armenian (Eastern) (hye-ear) Kharberd; Charberd; Erzincan; Erzenka (hye-kha) Sebaste (hye-seb) North Komedia (hye-nkm) Shabin-Karahissar; Schabin-Karahissar (hye-sha) Van; Wan (hye-van) Akn (hye-akn) Mus; Musch (hye-mus) Erevan; Eriwan (hye-ere) Western Armenian; Armenian (Western) (hye-war) Constantinople; Konstantinopel; Istanbul (hye-con) Karin; Erzurum; Erzerum (hye-kan) Dzhulfa; Dschugha; Dschulfa; Jolfâ (hye-dzh) Khoi-Salmst; Khvoy; Khvoy-Salmst; Choi-Salmst (hye-kho) Agulis (hye-agu) Smyrna; Izmir (hye-smy) Jolfâ; Dzhulfa; Dschugha; Dschulfa (hye-jol) Syria; Syrien (hye-syr)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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