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Some facts about Armenian language
Armenian language, member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily
of the Indo-European family of languages. There is evidence
that in ancient times a distinct subfamily of Indo-European
languages existed that is now called Thraco-Phrygian. To it
belonged Phrygian (an ancient and now extinct Indo-European
language of Anatolia) and Thracian (a now dead Indo-European
tongue of the Balkans in antiquity). Modern Armenian may well
be a direct descendant of Phrygian. Today Armenian is the
mother tongue of more than 5 million people, of whom over
3 million live in Armenia; 1 million live elsewhere in the
republics of the former Soviet Union; and the rest are in
the Middle East, the Balkans, and the United States. Armenian
is an old, rich, and vital language. Although spoken in antiquity,
it was not recorded in writing until the early 5th cent. A.D.
At that time an alphabet of 36 letters was specially designed
for Armenian by St. Mesrop, who used Greek and Iranian letters
as a basis. Later, two more letters were added to the alphabet.
In its early, or classical, form, Armenian is called Grabar
or Krapar. This was the literary language until the 19th cent.
and is still the liturgical language of the Armenian Church.
It differed greatly from the spoken language. Grammatically,
it has six cases for the noun and nine tenses for the verb,
but it has lost gender. The modern form of Armenian, now used
for literature as well as for speaking, dates from the 16th
cent. and is known as Ashksarhik or Ashksarhabar. Its grammar
is simpler than that of Classical Armenian. The history of
the Armenian people is reflected in the sources of the words
borrowed by their language. For example, Armenian has absorbed
words from Persian, owing to Parthian domination in the centuries
immediately before and after Jesus, from Greek and Syriac
as a result of Christian influence, from French during the
Crusades, and from Turkish in the course of several centuries
of Turkish rule. For grammars see S. L. Kogian (1949) and
K. H. Gulian (1954); John A. Greppin and A. A. Khachaturian,
Handbook of Armenian Dialectology (1986).
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