ARMENIAN LANGUAGE

ARMENIAN LANGUAGE

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Origins Of The Language

ARMENIAN ALPHABET

Linguistic Characteristics: Phonology

Linguistic Characteristics: Morhology

DIALECTS AND VARIANTS

ORIGINSOF THE LANGUAGE

- The spread of Christianity (Syriac and Greek words) - The Crusades (French words) - The Ottoman Empire (Turkish words) - 7 cases, 8 types of declension, 5 moods, 3 voices and 3 persons - The 4th century AD - the alphabet - The 5th century - the first literature - The 10th century - Middle Armenian language - The 17th century - New Armenian language - Western and Earsten Armenian languages - The Eastern is the official language of the country

- the Eastern group of the Indo-European language family - common points with the Slavic, Indo-Iranian and Baltic languages.

ARMENIAN ALPHABET

- Mesrop Mashtots 405AD - The cause - Christianity - The alphabet is phonetic - Direction from the left - Letters for numbers - Shape of letters - "Round" variety

The alphabet is phonetic. It originally consisted of 36 simple symbols, each of them denoting a sound.

Linguistic Characteristics:Phonology

At the ancient stage: - modification in the phonologycal system - loss of vowel difference in longitude - transition of syllabic sonants to combinations of vowels with sonants - the appearance of new fricative phonemes;- appearance of an affricate -change of vowels -the presence of three rows of consonants

In the middle period: - deafening of voiced consonants and the ringing of voiceless

In the new period: - formation of two main branches of dialects of the language and, accordingly, two literary norms (divergence, first of all, in consonantism).

Linguistic Characteristics: Morhology

- some dialects still have traces of the dual number - postpositive definite article - preserving the three-row system of demonstrative pronouns - inheritance of Indo-European basic principles of formation of verbal and nominal bases, separate case and verb inflections, word-forming suffixes - presence of 2 numbers

Old Armenian had preserved to some degree the general morphological character of older Indo-European languages based on the inflexion of nouns and verbs.

DIALECTS AND VARIANTS

Some of the reasons are: - the establishment of a Western-oriented Armenian kingdom in Cilicia - the attempts by the USSR to assimilate Armenians - Genocide One of the main differences is the exact pronunciation of consonants

Armenian has many dialects.

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