Armenian (Iranian Armenian): linguistics

01Sounds

The language’s phonemes, from one published description.

02Pronunciation

Each letter with its usual sound.

Armenian alphabet

Sound values are a teaching guide for the standard language, labelled to verify. Dialects differ. To verify

Sources Wikimedia Commons: pronunciation recordings, each under its own open licence. (2026) To verify

03Grammar at a glance

• Word order is flexible; subject, object, verb is common.
• Nouns have no grammatical gender.
• Nouns take seven cases.
• The definite article is a suffix: -ը after a consonant, -ն after a vowel.

To verify

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

04Core words compared

Ten everyday words across the languages of the region.

Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki and Balochi are Iranian languages, and many of their core words are related. Azerbaijani is Turkic and Armenian is its own branch of Indo-European, so their words differ. To verify

Sources Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. (1892) Verified; Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. (2003) To verify; Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. (1966) To verify; Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. (1998) To verify; Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. (2009) To verify; Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. (1998) To verify; Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. (2009) To verify

05Sources

1. Moran and McCloy (eds.). PHOIBLE 2.0. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2019

   Verified CC BY-SA 3.0 Phoneme inventories, each from the published source it names, read 2026-10-23.

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

   To verify

3. Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. 1892

   Verified Public domain. The digital edition was reachable on 2026-10-23.

4. Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. 2003

   To verify

5. Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. 1966

   To verify

6. Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. 1998

   To verify

7. Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. 2009

   To verify

8. Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. 1998

   To verify

06Research 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

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