Languages

Armenian

hah-yeh-REHN

Also Known As Hayeren The language own endonym.

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Armenian." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/armenian.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Armenian. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/armenian

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-armenian,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Armenian},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/armenian},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Armenian is an independent branch of the Indo-European family in its own right, not a subgroup of any other surviving branch, spoken by about 5.3 million people chiefly in Armenia, where it is the official language, and across a large worldwide diaspora. It has been written in the Armenian alphabet, a 36-letter script devised by Mesrop Mashtots, since 405 AD, and shows phonological, morphological and lexical features shared with Greek that scholars attribute to either common heritage or prolonged contact.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

hy 1

Speaker Count

5,300,000 1

2013-2021 range of cited estimates.

Status

Living 1

Attested From (Year)

from 405 1

Year the Armenian alphabet was created by Mesrop Mashtots; the oldest surviving Armenian text is a 5th-century Bible translation.

Region