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Other than ethnic Russians, 13,012 non-Russians speak Russian as a first language (11,859 of them are ethnic Armenians and the other 1,153 Russian speakers are of other ethnicities. In addition to those who speak Russian as a first language, 1,591,246 people or 52.7% of Armenia's citizens speak Russian as a second language [17]
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:
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% ...
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 ...
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.
Meanwhile, spoken Armenian developed independently of the written language. Many dialects appeared when Armenian communities became separated by geography or politics, and not all of these dialects are mutually intelligible. English is a popular language in the business world. [citation needed]