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nox
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Message 17 of 19

13 April 2006 at 6:01pm | IP Logged

lady_skywalker wrote:

nox wrote:

Is Armenian a dead language? Is is, I think.. but I've heard there are 3 villages whose mother tongue is Armenian.

I think you must be confusing it with Aramaic (which is only spoken in a few villages and is a descendent of the language Jesus supposedly spoke).

Armenian is the national language of the country Armenia and variants of the language are spoken by the widespread Armenian disapora. I believe the language is spoken in countries such as Lebanon and Iran, although the Armenians living there normally speak Western Armenian as opposed to Eastern Armenian, which is spoken in Armenian itself.

You can find out a bit more about it here if you wish.

Yes, yes!! I was thinking about Aramaic! What confused me was that i know there is Armenia! I was just too lazy to look for it at wikipedia's main page. :)

Edited by nox on 13 April 2006 at 6:02pm
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winters
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Message 18 of 19

28 April 2006 at 2:15pm | IP Logged

I want to learn Armenian, mainly because it supposedly shares some major isoglosses with Greek, and because it seems to be an interesting language from a linguistic point of view.
Therefore, I have been using some online materials and now for some time I flirt with the language ;) Recognising the signs of the alphabet is somewhat challenging, especially at the beginning, but I already feel a lot more comfortable with it and, if concentrated well, I can read with some average success (but I just have no idea what do I read and what does it all mean ;)). If I decide to continue to deal with Armenian further, then I suppose I will pick one of the dialects and decide to "seriously" study it, for now I just flirt with the language and try to see what is the logic behind it.
So far, I really like it, at least in the written form (since I cannot in any way practise the spoken one yet!), but due to the lack of resources, I doubt I will "seriously" study it in the nearest future.
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Mooby
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Message 19 of 19

02 December 2010 at 7:29pm | IP Logged

I stumbled across a very useful website today, hosting a series
of lessons (free). There are parallel lessons in both Eastern and Western
Armenian.
This link is for Eastern Armenian (mostly spoken in Armenia itself),
and there's a link to the Western Armenian lessons:

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Languag e_Lessons

The 36 letter alphabet looks challenging, but if you like the sound of
Persian, you'll love Armenian. Great music too.
I've got my hands full with Polish just now, but I'm tempted to give Armenian
a try. There aren't that many Armenians in the UK, but there are sizeable
populations in France and the USA amongst others.

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