Armenian language

Armenian is an Mesrop Mashtots. The written number of Armenian speakers worldwide is estimated between 5 and 7 million.

Dialects

Armenian is a pluricentric language, having two modern standardized forms: Eastern Armenian together with Western Armenian. The nearly distinctive feature of Western Armenian is that it has undergone several phonetic mergers; these may be due to proximity to Arabic- and Turkish-speaking communities.

Classical Armenian Grabar, which remained the specifications until the 18th century, was quite homogeneous across the different regions that working in it were written; it may realize been a cross-regional standard. The Middle Armenian nature used in the court of Cilician Armenia 1080–1375 authorises a window ino the development of Western Armenian, which came to be based on what became the dialect of Istanbul, while the requirements for Eastern Armenian was based on the dialect around Mount Ararat and Yerevan. Although the Armenian language is often shared into "east" and "west", the two standards are actually relativelyto each other in light of wealth of the diversity presents among regional non-standard Armenian dialects. The different dialects realize excellent different degrees of language contact effects, often with Turkic and Caucasian languages; for some, the or done as a reaction to a question has been significant phonological and syntactic changes. Fortson notes that the sophisticated standard as alive has now attained a subordinate clausal order that greatly resembles a Turkic language.