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Armenian (Iranian Armenian)

Tehran, Isfahan (New Julfa), Tabriz and Urmia

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Հայերեն

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: hye · Glottocode: nucl1235 · page code: hy
Family
Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Armenic › Eastern-Western Armenian
Script
Armn, left to right
Interface
Country pages, native review pending
Platform phase
By demand
Technology support
Well supported
Shown with
Noto Sans Armenian

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify

02Names and perspectives

Where names, classification or identity are debated, each view is shown with its sources. The platform takes no side.

  • հայերեն hayeren

  • Orthography

    Armenia adopted a reformed spelling in the Soviet period. Armenians in Iran keep the classical (Mashtotsian) spelling, as Western Armenian communities do.

    Sources Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. (2009) To verify

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Tehran, Isfahan (New Julfa), Tabriz and Urmia

Unknown

Speakers: No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

04Status

The UNESCO World Atlas of Languages is the United Nations source; its status is shown first and stays to verify until the Atlas can be read. Beside it, the Agglomerated Endangerment Status in Glottolog brings together the Catalogue of Endangered Languages, the UNESCO Atlas and Ethnologue. Ethnologue appears only as a secondary source.

EntryStatusBasisSource
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verifyUNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify
Eastern ArmenianNot endangered1 (National)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog

05Legal status

What constitutions say about the language. Quoted from the English translations of the Constitute Project.

06Varieties and dialects

Dialect groups as Glottolog records them. Names stay as published.

Eastern Armenian

23 dialects recorded

  • Agulis-Meghri
  • Ararat
  • Gharabagh-Shamakhi
  • Khoy-Maragha

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified

07This language’s pages

  • Writing

    Scripts, the alphabet chart, romanisation, numerals, keyboards and fonts.

  • Linguistics

    Sounds in IPA, pronunciation, grammar and core words compared with neighbouring languages.

  • Learn

    A pathway from first steps to fluency, courses, exams and heritage-language programmes.

  • Resources and preservation

    Dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

08Courses

09How to help

  • Native reviewers: read the Armenian (Iranian Armenian) pages and mark them reviewed.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Armenian of Iran.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
  • Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

10Sources

  1. Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2025

    Verified CC BY 4.0 Classification, dialect groups and the Agglomerated Endangerment Status (AES), read 2026-10-23.

  2. Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. 2009

    To verify

  3. UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. 2025

    To verify Not reachable when checked on 2026-10-23. Its status for each language is to verify.

  4. Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. 2025

    Secondary source Cited only as Glottolog reports it (its AES source). Ethnologue itself was not read.

  5. Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations. 2025

    Verified Articles on official languages, read 2026-10-23.

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Armenian (Iranian Armenian). iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/hy/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Armenian (Iranian Armenian).” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/hy/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_hy,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Armenian ({Iranian} {Armenian})},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/hy/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/hy/},
}

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AU  - Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council
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PY  - 2026
ID  - idcdc2026_language_l
N1  - Licence: CC BY 4.0
TI  - Armenian (Iranian Armenian)
UR  - https://iranians.global/language/languages/hy/
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11Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. The Hyphenated Architect Armenians and Modernist Architecture in Pahlavi Iran

    Grigor Talinn · 2026 · Armenian Art in Iran

    ChapterCrossref

  2. The Conversion of Christian Armenians to Islam in Iran in the Early Modern Period

    Kristine Kostikyan · 2025 · Religions

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  3. ARMENIANS OF MODERN IRAN

    A. Amurian, M. Kasheff · 2020 · Encyclopaedia Iranica Online

    DatasetOpenAlexCrossrefOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

  4. Nest of Revolution: The Caucasus, Iran, and Armenians

    Houri Berberian · 2018 · I.B.Tauris eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossref

  5. The Iranian Armenian Community

    Houri Berberian · 2018 · Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905—1911

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  6. Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905—1911

    Houri Berberian · 2018 · Routledge

    BookCrossrefOpenAIRE

  7. Houri Berberian, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds

    Thomas Welsford · 2021 · Études Arméniennes Contemporaines

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Historical Changes of Limitations and Causes of Divorce in the Rights of Iranian Armenians

    azra khatami, Hossein Heidari · 2024 · فقه و حقوق خانواده

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  9. HLA Antigens in Two Iranian Populations: The Armenians and The Jews

    H Tabatabai, K Mohammad, N Mohagheghpour · 1978 · Tissue Antigens

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  10. The Armenian community in Iran: Issues and emigration

    Gohar Iskandaryan · 2019

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  11. The Mass Repatriation of the Armenians from Iran in 1946-1947 (Some Statistical Data)

    Lina Malekian · 2007 · Iran and the Caucasus

    ArticleCrossref

  12. 10 Armenian Language and Identity in Iran: The Case of Iranian Armenians of Isfahan

    Saeed Rezaei, Maryam Farnia · 2023 · De Gruyter

    ArticleOpenAIRE

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.