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Armenian Birds Mosaic from Jerusalem with Armenian language and alphabet Armenian language writing in Haghpat Monastery. W. M. Austin (1942) concluded [39] that there was early contact between Armenian and Anatolian languages, based on what he considered common archaisms, such as the lack of a feminine gender and the absence of inherited long ...
Acharian was born to Armenian parents in Constantinople (Istanbul) on 8 March 1876. [2] He was blinded in one eye at an early age. [3] His father, Hakob, was a shoemaker.He received initial education at the Aramian and Sahagian Schools in Samatya, [4] then at the Getronagan (1889–93), where he learned French, Turkish, and Persian. [5]
The origin of the Proto-Armenian language is subject to scholarly debate. The Armenian hypothesis would postulate the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language, [7] while the Kurgan hypothesis suggests it arrived in the Armenian Highlands either from the Balkans or through the Caucasus.
The New Dictionary of Ancient Armenian Language (1836) gives the definition "written with an iron stylus". [71] Another version of the etymology suggests that the name originated from the iron oxide used in the ink. [67] More modern researchers tend to associate the term with an iron chisel used to carve the writing in stone inscriptions.
Classical Armenian (Armenian: գրաբար, romanized: grabar, Eastern Armenian pronunciation [ɡəɾɑˈpʰɑɾ], Western Armenian pronunciation [kʰəɾɑˈpʰɑɾ]; meaning "literary [language]"; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at the beginning of the ...
Eastern Armenian (Armenian: Արեւելահայերեն, romanized: Arevelahayeren) is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Western Armenian. The two standards form a pluricentric language .
Paleo-Balkan languages and peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia between 5th and 1st century BC. The name Armeno-Phrygian is used for a hypothetical language branch, which would include the languages spoken by the Phrygians and the Armenians, and would be a branch of the Indo-European language family, or a sub-branch of either the proposed "Graeco-Armeno-Aryan" or "Armeno-Aryan" branches.
According to Armen Petrosyan, hay has been used to mean "husband, chief of family" in several Armenian dialects. [35] Petrosyan suggests that Etiuni, the name of a powerful tribal confederation to the immediate north of Urartu, may reflect a Urartian-language form of *hetiyo or *hatiyo. [36]