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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 ...
According to Soviet 1989 census 47% Armenians speak Armenian as native language, 52% speak Russian as native language. At the same time almost all fluent in Russian language. About half of the Armenians have higher education and, consequently, higher social status. [29]
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:
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 ...
The main foreign languages that Armenians know are Russian and English. Due to its Soviet past, most of the old population can speak Russian quite well. According to a 2013 survey, 95% of Armenians said they had some knowledge of Russian (24% advanced, 59% intermediate) compared to 40% who said they knew some English (4% advanced, 16% ...
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 ...
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 ...
Russia has placed pressure on Yerevan to open more Russian schools, which have so far not been successful. [10] At the same time, there are complications concerning the status of Russian as a language. With the influx of Russians following 2022, many have voiced concern that the use of Armenian will dwindle in the face of Russian and English.