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  Armenian Alphabet - Armeniapedia.org
Armenian Alphabet Monument at outskirts of Oshakan Village.
Armenians pride themselves on being the first nation to adopt Christianity, an event that is supposed to have occurred in the early fourth century when St. Gregory the Illuminator succeeded in converting Trdat, the king of Armenia.
Organized by Russell, the conference was sponsored by the Armenian Prelacy of New York, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.
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  Eastern Armenian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eastern Armenian is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian (an Indo-European language), spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic).
The phonology of Eastern Armenian preserves the three-way distinction in stops and affricates that is missing from Western Armenian.
In Eastern Armenian, the distinct conjugations in e and i merged as e.
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 Armenian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people in the Armenian Republic and also used by the Armenian Diaspora.
Armenian was historically split in to two vaguely-defined primary dialects: Eastern Armenian, the form spoken in modern-day Armenia, and Western Armenian, the form spoken by Armenians in Anatolia.
Armenian is rich in combinations of consonants, especially in affricative sounds such as j, ch, and ts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenian_language   (893 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Armenian verbs
The verbal morphology of Armenian is fairly simple in theory, but is complicated by the existence of two main dialects, Eastern and Western.
The infinitive of Armenian verbs is formed with the stem, the theme vowel, and the affix -l:
Eastern Armenian uses the -um participle with the present tense of "to be" (EA linel):
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Armenian-verbs   (1186 words)

  
 Eastern Armenian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The phonology of Eastern Armenian preserves the distinction in stops and affricates that is from Western Armenian.
In Eastern Armenian the effect of renders voiced stops and affricates (which are aspirated) as voiceless aspirate stops meaning kamurj (bridge) sounds like kamurch'.
The present tense in Eastern Armenian is on two conjugations (a e).
www.freeglossary.com /Eastern_Armenian   (752 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Armenian language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic) and also used by the Armenian Diaspora.
The Armenians are a predominantly Christian ethnic group, primarily of the Armenian Church.
Whether Armenians are Europeans or not is a bone of contention, as the people of Caucasia have become increasingly disregarded as being Europeans over the past couple of centuries.
www.ipedia.com /armenian_language.html   (308 words)

  
 Eastern Armenian language - Definition, explanation
Eastern Armenian is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian (an Indo-European language), spoken in the Caucasus mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic).
The phonology of Eastern Armenian preserves the three-way distinction in stops and affricates that is missing from Western Armenian.
In Eastern Armenian, the distinct conjugations in e and i merged as e.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ea/eastern_armenian_language.php   (617 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Armenian language
Armenian also shares major isoglosses with Greek; some linguists propose that the linguistic ancestors of the Armenians and Greeks were either identical or in a close contact relation.
Austin in 1942 concluded that there was an early contact between Armenian and Anatolian languages, based on what he considered common archaisms, such as the lack of a feminine, the absence of inherited long vowels and the centum character.
Armenian can be subdivided in two major dialectal blocks and those blocks into individual dialects, though many of the Western Armenian dialects have died due to the effects of the Armenian Genocide.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Armenian_language   (1236 words)

  
 OHCHR: Armenian () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Armenian is the native (and official) language of Armenia, a landlocked country in Transcaucasia bordering on Turkey and Iran, and constitutes a separate and independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Modern Armenian, established as an independent language no earlier than 1875, has two main varieties: Eastern Armenian (Ashkharik, the official language), based on the dialect of the Ararat region, and Western Armenian (spoken by the Turkish minority) based on the Istanbul/Turkish dialect.
Hence, the first texts in Armenian available in written form were mainly religious ones (first of all the Bible), translated by monks and priests.
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/arm.htm   (224 words)

  
 Eastern Armenian -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The phonology of Eastern Armenian preserves the three-way distinction in stops and affricates that is missing from (Click link for more info and facts about Western Armenian) Western Armenian.
Eastern Armenian nouns have seven (A portable container for carrying several objects) cases, one more than Western Armenian.
The present tense in Eastern Armenian is based on two (The inflection of verbs) conjugations (a, e).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ea/Eastern_Armenian.htm   (588 words)

  
 Armenian Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Similarly, Benjamin is pronounced “Penyamin” by Western Armenians and “Benyamin” by Eastern Armenians (Armenians from Armenia, the ex-Soviet Union and Iran).
They use the Eastern Armenian pronunciation, which is mainly right, but their Armenian spelling and writing is not corrupted by the “Russification” attempts by the Soviets.
The Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian division is a result of the Armenian language having been desecrated by foreign powers bent on eliminating the originality of the Armenian language.
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 Critical Languages Institute
Armenian is especially valuable for the study of those cultures that had no writing systems.
Western Armenian is spoken by three to four million people in the Armenian communities of Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Greece and other countries of the Middle East, as well as by emigrants from these countries in other parts of the world.
There are about six million native speakers of Eastern Armenian in the Republic of Armenia, in the CIS, Iran and other parts of the world, where emigrants from Armenia and Iran have settled.
www.asu.edu /clas/reesc/cli/armsyll06.htm   (793 words)

  
 Armenian Summer Language Institute -- The Program
Classical Armenian is a dead language and is of interest primarily to scholars of medieval Armenian, Christian and linguistic studies.
Eastern Armenian is the state language of the Republic of Armenia and is spoken primarily in Armenia, Iran and by the Armenians from these two countries residing in the west.
Western Armenian is the language spoken by the Western Armenians from the Ottoman Empire (survivors and of the genocide and their descendants); it is the one spoken by older emigrants to this country, in the Middle East, France and elsewhere in the world.
www.umich.edu /~iinet/asp/summer/program.htm   (383 words)

  
 Translations in English, French, Russian and Armenian
Eastern Armenian was spoken in that part of Armenia which has long been under the Russian rule.
However for most Eastern Armenians who have recently immigrated into these countries Armenian is the only language they speak, and they are the ones first of all, who need a translation.
However Eastern Armenian (i.e., Soviet) orthography has been in use for over 50 years now, several generations have been using it, vast literature has been created in that orthography and changing it is no easy task.
www.pipoyan.com /trans/arm_spec.htm   (1168 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Eastern Armenian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Armenian also features a two-way distinction between its rhotic sounds, /r/ (r') and /
The definite article is a suffix attached to the noun, and is one of two forms, either -ë or -n, depending on whether the final sound is a vowel or a consonant, and whether a preceding word begins with a vowel or consonant:
Adjectives in Armenian do not decline for case or number, and precede the noun:
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eastern-Armenian   (565 words)

  
 Eastern Armenian - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian (an Indo-European_language), spoken in the Caucasus_mountains (particularly in the Armenian Republic).
There are seven Armenian vowels: Front Central Back High i u Mid e ə (ë) o Low a The phonology of Eastern Armenian preserves the three-way distinction in stops and affricates that is missing from Western_Armenian.
Eastern Armenian nouns have seven (subject), Accusative (direct object), Genitive (possession), Dative (indirect object), Ablative (origin), Instrumental (means) and Locative (position).
www.indexsuche.com /Eastern_Armenian.html   (358 words)

  
 Eastern Armenian: Armenian-English, English-Armenian Dictionary & Phrasebook
Does not always work on Armenians, but it is a nice ice breaker!
written in the alphabet used for the English language); NONE of it is written in the Armenian alphabet, not even in parentheses.
There is, as the author calls it, `a very basic grammar' section (eight pages long) in the front of the book.
www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=078181006X&field-keywords=Byrd&schMod=books&type=&sb=s   (344 words)

  
 BigRedGarage.com - Learn to Speak Armenian with Pimsleur Armenian Language Courses
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.
Western Armenian (the more common form) is used by Armenians in Istanbul, Lebanon, Egypt, other parts of the Diaspora, and formerly in eastern Turkey.
Eastern Armenian is the official language of the Republic of Armenia and in enclaves in Azerbaijan and Iran.
www.bigredgarage.com /armenian.htm   (298 words)

  
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Hovannisian has served as Chairman of the Armenian National Institute's Academic Council for the past five years and was a founding member of the Armenian Assembly of America, the Society for Armenian Studies, the Armenian Monument Council, and International Alert.
It is the sum of it all and on top of that, an aspiration, an ultimate goal to reach a genuine and undying urge to serve the homeland of his dreams." She concluded: "An achieved scholar is one that leaves an indelible mark in his field.
The Armenian National Institute is dedicated to the study, research, and reaffirmation of the Armenian Genocide.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/centers/armenian/event1109.html   (809 words)

  
 On Armenian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
[The Armenian imperfect and the preterite use.] (Biblioteca di "Paideia", 6.)Arona: Ed.
Iuzbashian, A. "The Present Tense of the Indicative Mood in Armenian Literature of the 5th Century." [In Armenian.] Patma Banasirakan Handes 2 (109).161-73.
Kozintseva, Natalia A. "The past perfect in Armenian." Werner Abraham and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in Honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov.
www.scar.utoronto.ca /~binnick/TENSE/Armenian.html   (349 words)

  
 Armenian Computing Information (Penn State)
Armenian is an Indo-European language distantly related to Greek, Persian, English and Latin.
Armenian House – This site should be readable in a Unicode compliant browser if the proper fonts are installed.
Armenian numeric Unicode entity codes can be used for small pieces of text when other methods to not work.
tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/armenian.html   (845 words)

  
 4Reference || Eastern Armenian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
First, notice that the Ablative form in Eastern Armenian is -ic', where it is -ê in Western Armenian: Abl.sg WA karê/EA garuc' Second, notice that in Western Armenian, the plural forms followed the u-declension, while in Eastern Armenian the plural forms follow the i-declension: Gen.pl WA karineru/EA garineri
Adjectives in Armenian do not decline for case or number, and precede the noun: lav girk'ë ('the good book', Nom.sg)
(See also Armenian verbs and Eastern Armenian verb table for more detailed information.) The present tense in Eastern Armenian is based on two conjugations (a, e).
www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Eastern_Armenian.html   (492 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:hye
Eastern Armenian (4,341,000) is spoken in Armenia and its Turkish and Iranian borderlands; Western Armenian (879,612) is spoken elsewhere.
Eastern Armenian, Agulis, Astrakhân, Jolfâ (Dzhulfa), Karabagh Shamakhi, Khoi-Salmst (Khvoy), Urmia-Maragheh.
Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Turkey, and Iran; Western in other countries, including Israel.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=hye   (240 words)

  
 Armenian Apostolic Church Library Online! Sermons and Teachings as mp3 and pdf downloads
This Bible study was taught at the summer conferences of St.
Nersess Armenian Seminary during the summer of 1998.
Nersess Armenian Seminary during the summer of 2003.
www.armenianchurchlibrary.com /Bibletranslationsandstudies.html   (114 words)

  
 Eastern Armenian verb table -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The following is an (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Armenian) Eastern Armenian verb table.
The (Click link for more info and facts about Western Armenian) Western Armenian verb table can be found (The present location; this place) here:
Note: the negative jussive forms may also be (in Eastern Armenian) ch'piti sirem, ch'piti sires, etc; ch'piti sirei, ch'piti sireir, etc.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ea/Eastern_Armenian_verb_table.htm   (167 words)

  
 Armenian Summer Language Institute
The University of Michigan Armenian Studies Program is delighted to announce the continuation of its successful Summer Language Institute to be held in Yerevan, Armenia from June 24 through August 23, 2004.
The SLI is open to all undergraduate, graduate and professional school students who wish to learn Classical Armenian, as well as Modern Eastern and Western Armenian.
A series of lectures on Armenian culture and history and an extensive program of excursions and cultural events will supplement the courses.
www.umich.edu /~iinet/asp/summer/summerinst.htm   (238 words)

  
 Armenian alphabet
He modelled the Armenian alphabet very losely on the Greek alphabet and was also possibly influenced by the Assyrian script.
There are a few minor differences in the pronunciation of the letters between the two main dialects of Armenian: Western and Eastern.
A significant number of Armenian root words owe their origin to or are similar to roots in Old Persian, revealing common Indo-European ancestry.
www.omniglot.com /writing/armenian.htm   (242 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Armenia
Eastern Armenian (Ashkharik) spoken in Armenia, Turkey, Iran.
(ARMENIAN BOSHA, ARMENIAN BOSA, BOSHA, BOSA) [RMI] Armenia, southern Caucasus, Azerbaijan, and Syria.
Gramatically restructured to be like Armenian with phonology and lexicon also influenced by Armenian.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Arme.html   (355 words)

  
 ANN/Groong -- AWOL (Armenian Weekly On-Line) July 12-18, 2003
People are very concerned with showing that their research is respectable, and that typically means that they'll write in a way that is opaque, that is not enjoyable to read, and that does not make immediate sense to the average reader.
But in Armenian Studies, all of the methodologies come out of the 1890s, which was when the last great Armenian scholars were studying in Europe and then came to Armenia, like Adjarian.
But for the East-West issue, there is an asymmetry where all the Eastern Armenians know Western Armenian, at least passively, because of all the diasporans that went to Armenia, whereas the Western Armenians tend not to know Eastern.
www.uwm.edu /~vaux/armenianweekly7-03.htm   (13945 words)

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