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In the early 20th century, it was estimated that only 3-4% of Armenians could read or speak Russian. [11] Rapid Russification started during the Soviet period, particularly after Stalin's coming to power in the mid-1930s, when Russian became lingua franca of the Soviet Union. [12] Until 1990 the Russian language was widely applied alongside ...
Armenian Russian is the regional variety of Russian spoken in Armenia [6] [1] and the partially-recognised Republic of Artsakh (as Artsakhi (Armenian) Russian), where parliament voted to establish Russian an official language in March 2021. [7] There are some vocabulary differences to the variety of Russian as spoken in Armenia/Artsakh, such as:
According to the Russian 2002 census, there were 274,566 Armenians. 211,397 of them spoke Armenian as their native language and 6,948 had Armenian citizenship. According to estimates some 500,000, [ 32 ] [ 33 ] 700,000 [ 34 ] or 1,000,000 [ 35 ] Armenians resided in Krasnodar.
Today the Armeno-Tat dialect is considered nearly extinct, with most Armeno-Tats having switched to Armenian and Russian. In 2002, only 36 Armenians in Russia spoke Tat either as a first or second language. [13] There is an unknown number of speakers in Armenia, all of whom, however, are over 50. [14]
1828–1829: Over 50,000 Armenians from Ottoman Empire and Iran migrate to Russian Armenia; 1828 October 9: Khachatur Abovian and Friedrich Parrot reach the summit of Mount Ararat for the first time; 1836: Polozhenie (Statute) decree allows Armenian language schools in the Russian Empire, regulates the Armenian church; 1840: Armenian Oblast ...
Eric P. Hamp (1976, 91) supports the Graeco-Armenian thesis and even anticipates a time "when we should speak of Helleno-Armenian" (meaning the postulate of a Graeco-Armenian proto-language). Armenian shares the augment and a negator derived from the set phrase in the Proto-Indo-European language *ne h₂oyu kʷid ("never anything" or "always ...
The status of Russians in Armenia, concerning language and schooling, has become complicated. In Soviet times, Russian language schools were highly sought after, but many were dissolved following 1991. [10] Many Russian-only schools remain active, but are criticized due to Russia's influence on these schools.
The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions of Eurasia historically and geographically considered Armenian. [1] Armenia is located between Eastern Anatolia and the Armenian highlands, [1] surrounding the Biblical mountains of ...