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AllRefer.com - Armenian language (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia |
 | | Armenian language, member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European). |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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