Eastern Armenian

Eastern Armenian ( արևելահայերեն arewelahajeren )
Spoken in	Armenia , the former Soviet Union , Georgia and Iran
speaker	5,800,000
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Armenian Eastern Armenian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hye-ear

Eastern Armenian ( Armenian արևելահայերեն arewelahajeren ) is one of the two standardized forms of modern Armenian (an Indo-European language ), the other is Western Armenian , which also includes the Homschezi dialect. The two standards form a pluricentric language .

Armenian dialects spoken in the early 20th century; -owm dialects in green (after Adscharjan )

This inscription on the Tehran Church of the Holy Mother of God is in Eastern Armenian, but in traditional Armenian spelling.

Eastern Armenian is in the Caucasus Mountains (especially in the Republic of Armenia and Republic of Artsakh as well as in Georgia by the Wrazahajer particularly around the town of Akhalkalaki ) and the Armenian community in Iran spoken. Although the Armenian spoken by the Armenians in Armenia and the Armenian (Պարսկահայերեն Parskahajeren ) spoken by the Iranian Armenians are similar, there are strong differences in the intonation with different inflections. One of the peculiarities of the Parskahajeren is the preservation of the classical pronunciation of the / r / as a voiced alveolar approximant as in Classical Armenian (and as in English), while elsewhere in both West Armenian and East Armenian the realization of the / r / as a voiced alveolar Flap (similar to Spanish) is. Armenians from Armenia also have words that are only unique there ( regionalisms ), especially loanwords from Russian , while Persian loanwords are numerous in the Parskahajeren . There are also differences in spelling: while Armenian in Armenia, Georgia and the Diaspora in Russia is written in Reformed Armenian script , the Armenian media in Iran, such as the daily Alik , write in traditional, non-Reformed Armenian script.

Due to the migration of Eastern Armenians from Armenia and Iran to the Armenian Diaspora , Eastern Armenian is now predominant in countries and regions where Western Armenian was used.

Eastern Armenian developed out of Old Armenian Grabar in the early 19th century and is now based on the dialect spoken in the Ararat district (of Eastern Armenia ).

See also

• IETF language tag : hy-arevela
• Spelling reform of the Armenian language 1922–1924
• Turkish loan words in Armenian

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• Arak29 Eastern Armenian
• Arak29 online dictionaries
• http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=hye

Individual evidence

1. ↑ language in Encyclopædia Britannica
2. ↑ Afsheen Sharifzadeh (Tufts University): On "Parskahayeren", or the Language of Iranian Armenians. August 25, 2015.
3. ↑ Pipoyan ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.