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Armenian (Iranian Armenian)

Հայերեն · Armn script, written left to right. Spoken in Tehran, Isfahan (New Julfa), Tabriz and Urmia.

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Armenian (Iranian Armenian)

Հայերեն · Armn script, written left to right. Spoken in Tehran, Isfahan (New Julfa), Tabriz and Urmia.

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Academy126 courses, 126 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
ScriptArmnleft to righton request
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ՀայերենArmenian (Iranian Armenian) · Armn
Code
hy
Family
Armenian
Where
Tehran, Isfahan (New Julfa), Tabriz and Urmia
Phase
on request
Coverage
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

7 in the catalogue
Armenian of IranIDCDC-LNG-06 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
Iran in world history (survey)IDCDC-HIS-01 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
SufismIDCDC-LIT-03 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
Iranian philosophy from Avicenna to Mulla SadraIDCDC-LIT-04 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
Contemporary Iranian thoughtIDCDC-LIT-06 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
Jewish, Armenian, Assyrian and Mandaean IranIDCDC-FTH-05 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
Human geography and maps 101IDCDC-SSC-03 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
Open
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Writing

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հայերենhayeren
left to right

Scripts

Armn
Armenian alphabetա բ գ դ ե զ է ը
38 letters

From one script to another

Armenian to Latin, ALA-LC (2022)Letter by letter, Eastern and Classical values. ե is e, written y at the start of a name before a vowel in Classical orthography; this demo always writes e.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.
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Resources

4 resources
Eastern Armenian National Corpuscorpus · EANC · checked 2026-10-23
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Matenadaran (manuscripts and digital collections)library · Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts · checked 2026-10-23
verified
Universal Dependencies: Armenian ArmTDP treebankcorpus · Universal Dependencies · checked 2026-10-23
verified
Glottolog: Eastern Armenianreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
verified
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Armenic, then Eastern-Western Armenian
Codes
ISO 639-3 hye · Glottolog nucl1235
Dialects
Eastern Armenian: Agulis-Meghri, Ararat, Gharabagh-Shamakhi, Khoy-Maragha (23 listed in all)
Standing
Eastern Armenian: not endangered (1 (National)) secondary
Sounds
30 consonants and 7 vowels, after Allen 1950 · the inventory verified

f h j k kʰ kʼ l m n p pʰ pʼ r ʁ̞ s ʃ t tʰ ts tsʰ tsʼ t̠ʃ t̠ʃʰ t̠ʃʼ tʼ v z ʐ͇ ʒ χ a ə ə̯ i ie̞ o̞ u

Eastern-Western Armenian
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Grammar in short

  • 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 · Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins.

Orthography

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

to verify · Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins.

In law

The Constitution of Iran (Article 13) recognises Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian Iranians as religious minorities.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
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Speakers

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Year
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Source
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Status
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Learn

1 course
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Armenian of IranIDCDC-LNG-06 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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