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Armeno-Tats of Madrasa and Kilvar referred to their language as p'arseren ("Persian"), while Armeno-Tat migrants to the North Caucasus and Astrakhan called it keghetseren ("village talk") [7] and used it within their own community as an in-group language. [11] Armenian researcher Armen Hakobian identifies the eighteenth century as the time when ...
A multilingual (Armenian-English-Russian) sign at the Geghard monastery. Armenia is located in the Caucasus region of south-eastern Europe. Armenian is the official language in Armenia and is spoken as a first language by the majority of its population.
The Armenian script, along with the Georgian, was used by the poet Sayat-Nova in his Armenian poems. [26] An Armenian alphabet was an official script for the Kurdish language in 1921–1928 in Soviet Armenia. [27] The Armeno-Tats, who've historically spoken Tat, wrote their language in the Armenian alphabet. [28]
D. Lavrov was the first scholar to note the similarity between the names of Satenik and Satana, the heroine of the North Caucasian Nart sagas. [4] Variants of the name Satana exist in various Caucasian languages. Harold W. Bailey compared the name with Avestan sātar-'ruling woman'. [5] Others have compared it with the Scytho-Sarmatian name ...
The national coat of arms of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի զինանշան, romanized: Hayastani zinanshan) was adopted on April 19, 1992, by resolution of the Armenian Supreme Council. On June 15, 2006, the Armenian Parliament passed the law on the state coat of arms of Armenia. It consists of an eagle and a lion supporting a shield ...
The four Armenian royal dynasties are depicted in clockwise direction from top-left: Bagratids, Arsacids, Rubenids and Artaxiads. There is a lion to the right of the shield and an eagle to the left. In the bottom there is a sword, a branch of a tree, a bundle of spikes, a chain and a ribbon. Armenian coat of arms has the colors of Armenian flags.
The Armenian language dates to the early period of Indo-European differentiation and dispersion some 5000 years ago, or perhaps as early as 7,800 years ago according to some recent research. [31] Trade and conquest forced the language to change, adding new words into the people's vocabulary.
Urartian cuneiform inscription at the Erebuni Museum (Yerevan). Urartian or Vannic [14] is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language which was spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu (Biaini or Biainili in Urartian), (it was also called Nairi), which was centered on the region around Lake Van and had its capital, Tushpa, near the site of the modern town of Van in the Armenian ...