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This video is all about Armenian, one of the most unique and fascinating languages of the Indo-European language family. I hope you find it interesting!
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@Langfocus 9 месяцев назад

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@MultiSuperfluous 6 месяцев назад

Keep up your informative videos

@armankamal332 4 месяца назад

Much respect and deep love to our best neighbour Armenia, love you from Iran

@spitfire2885 Год назад

Im mexican American growing in Glendale CA in the 90s , in middle school I liked a girl she told me she wouldn't date me unless I learned Armenian 3 years later I spoked it fluently , we dated for a long time but we went our separate ways..now I'm trilingual, English, Spanish, and Armenian

@Carlosk12 Год назад

dude i'm also mexican and went to high school in Burbank

@Neo-Reloaded Год назад

😂🤣 I mean, there was a silver lining, but that's not something you should have done.

@nicolausteslaus Год назад

Dude. you are not trilingual. I doesn't work like that.

@Pfs709 Год назад

I went Buenos Aires to study Spanish . Now I am trilingual: Spanish, English, Armenian

@Leonardo-se4su Год назад

Shat lav, apres !

@alifenterprise7441 22 дня назад

I am speaking from Bangladesh. Armenia is my favorite country

@squatresident Год назад

I was in Armenia 2 months ago and man this country is beyond words, breathtaking landscapes, the most hospitable people, very ancient culture... And yeah, that language... It doesn't sound nor look like anything else and in the meantime pretty difficult to grasp, very special. I encourage anyone who can afford it to visit this fantastic country and give Armenia the love it deserves. 🇦🇲❤

@iskambillordu Год назад

Too small,not worth considered as a tourist spot.

@squatresident Год назад

@@iskambillordu you sir definitely don't know what you're talking about.

@sarellehayek5030 Год назад

Your loss

@meeeeeeeeeeee Год назад

This is only one small part, but the food in Armenia was amazing to me when I visited. It's nothing complicated, just very fresh ingredients put into dishes that are most comparable to Persian food (e.g. they have the exact same salad and similar kebabs but different bread). Obviously the restaurants are less fancy than in Italy or France (both of which I've visited for months), but fine dining isn't always what I want, and overall I enjoyed Armenian's food even more. I'm so thankful I had 2 weeks to visit Armenia before starting my new job a few years ago.

@edomin1148 Год назад

@@iskambillorduhow dare you??? you should know better why it's small. But, it's big enough for survivirs of genocide to appreciate they are still here amd genocide failed, despite its denial by the ultranationlist Turkish liars.

@GuyHeadbanger Год назад

As a German, listening to Armenian language gives me strong vibes of ancient people, living in mountains, that have been there for thousands of thousands of years. It makes me want to live of grid, like in an old village in the mountains or an old tower... An equal feeling I have towards to the Icelandic language.

@koksalceylan9032 7 месяцев назад

Guy: the Armenians living in the mountains just whant to get out of that hard life and immigratie in to Germany,will pay the little money they have.

@GuyHeadbanger 7 месяцев назад

@@koksalceylan9032 Well, if every Armenian immigrating to Germany brings 10 Arabs to their own countries, we happily welcome them.

@koksalceylan9032 7 месяцев назад

@@GuyHeadbanger : yes that Wood work,the landscape of Armenia is what Arab used to dwell in.

@GuyHeadbanger 7 месяцев назад

@@koksalceylan9032 Well, I mean back to Arabia with the Arabs and welcome Armenia!

@gavinpanjar5559 5 месяцев назад

I have the same feeling with German language. And almost like I somehow understand it.

@AntoniuDraculea Год назад

Love and support from Armenia from Europe, Romania!

@Thatboymeher Месяц назад

Love you too dude, I wanna lean Romanian SO BAD, but I just don’t have to motivation, or no I can speak Spanish so it isn’t like I’m not familiar with a Latin language, but I just can’t 🥹🇦🇲❤🇷🇴

@razvardan Год назад

As a subscriber since your early days, thank you for finally covering my native language! Cheers from Armenia! 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

@mett_2004 Год назад

As an Iranian, I'm currently learning Armenian and I can find a lot of similarities between Armenian and Persian, that makes Armenian easier to learn for me. there are a lot of similar words and also the grammar somehow is similar, especially when it comes to verbs structure. but the pronunciation is a bit hard😅❤

@user-gd3dx4pd8q Год назад

Так и есть. Одно время армянский считался языком персидской группы.

@samleroy2964 10 месяцев назад

Грамматика? В армянском кажется есть просто заимствования из персидского

@maskaliki 10 месяцев назад

@@samleroy2964 Шпрахбунд. Соседние языки одного региона влияют друг на друга в плане грамматики, не только заимствования лексики.

@user-ud1oi4mb7k 9 месяцев назад

@@mostafanoor3471hmm, not really, I believe that the pre-christian Armenian religion were heavily influenced by the Hellenism, so it was a kind of mixture of hellenistic paganism and Persian zoroastrianism, having both Ahura Mazda (Aramazd in armenian tradition) and equivalents of Greek gods (Astghik instead of Aphrodite, Vahagn instead of Ares etc).

@user-ud1oi4mb7k 9 месяцев назад

@@mostafanoor3471 lol, this isn't my personal opinion, here's more information about this on the Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_mythology

@madlentutelian3612 Год назад

As a native Western Armenian speaker, I often struggle to understand Eastern Armenian. I think this is a mutual feeling, but I still see it as the same language and more frequent exposure to the other dialect can help a lot. Also, it is worth to mention that Western Armenian speakers are more often than not billingual, with the other native language being dominant in the environment you grew up in (which is completely understandable). Also, since it is not an official language anywhere and is slowly dying out, new Western Armenian speakers tend to have a simpler understanding of grammar and vocabulary (often intertwined with the other dominant language) so that complicates the communication with native Eastern Armenian speakers as well.

@chraman169 Год назад

Can you somewhat understand persian?

@alekszadorian4126 Год назад

Native armenian speaker from Iran here, and yeah I agree. I can understand western Armenian but only because I've had a ton of friends from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, etc. Before, i had to ask them to repeat. The sad thing is Most people switch over to eastern where I live cuz they think I won't understand them, which doesn't help keep western Armenian

@sayatciroglu6445 Год назад

As a native western armenian speaker , i often understand yerevan dialect easly but local wording in artsakh and sunik it is a chalange for me

@madlentutelian3612 Год назад

@@chraman169 Not really, even though Armenian used to have many Persian loanwords in the past (more than currently).

@chraman169 Год назад

@@madlentutelian3612 thank you

@kaloarepo288 Год назад

If you go to the island city of Venice in Italy you will find a small island that has a Catholic Armenian monastery on it and in centuries past it was the center of studies into the Armenian language and culture. The great English romantic poet Lord Byron visited this monastery when he became interested in the Armenian language and wanted the monks to teach him the language.

@W1DN173 Год назад

"Armenian is the language to speak with God" - Lord Byron

@manvelmsurian9712 3 месяца назад

That's a bit Wierden Tho. Roman Catholic dienst exist yet when Armenia became Christian, so Theys did their own tuingereedschap called: Armenian apostolische.

@sjbesq1 Месяц назад

The monastery at San Lazarro.

@Kristina-cp1wj 14 дней назад

After Byron said: "Armenian is the language to speak with God".

@dekenlst Год назад

A great culture and an amazing people. Much love to Armenia from Greece 🇬🇷🇦🇲

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

Yeah very amazing people 🤣🤣🤣

@bluepeng8895 Год назад

Thank you! Much love to Greece from Armenia 🇦🇲🇬🇷

@armennavoyan4665 Год назад

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ AZERBARANSTAN ARE YOU HERE 🤣🤣🤣

@alexandro_lux Год назад

I went to school with many Armenians in California and it’s safe to say they’re some of the most racist people I’ve ever met.

@iloveyoushima4953 Год назад

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ What’s so funny? The fact the prophet Mohammed is getting raped by pigs in hell screaming and crying while he’s being burned alive forever like the dirty little pedophile he is?

@alishakhadka4618 Год назад

Such ancient people, culture & nation.Much love to Hayastan from Nepal 🇳🇵❤️🇦🇲.

@karen_galstyan3367 Год назад

i just watched the movie everest......

@suren2313 Год назад

Thanks beautiful

@ramachandranpillai7582 Год назад

@FokoPoko991 Год назад

not really, armenians came to what's currently Armenia somewhere between 500 CE and 500 BCE, and they likely descended from the north and pushed the remaining urartus north-west. Don't get me wrong though, Armenia may not be that ancient of a country but the language definetely is, but it has very little to do with Urartu.

@atmn1198 Год назад

Can you give me your contact,maybe whatsupp or telegram. I need to talk with you Alisha

@Sporkonafork1 Год назад

Armenians, a very ancient people. Excited for the video.

@1234smileface 8 месяцев назад

Armenian sounds beautiful. Greetings from Ireland.

@jurekfryczkowski6674 Год назад

Great episode, from Polish/Slavic perspective we still use the ending 'em' for 1st person singular so 'I am' = Jestem 'Yestem' (Polish) = Yes yem / ես եմ (Armenian) House = Dom (Slavic) = Tun / Տուն (Armenian) An interesting cognate would be Armenian word for drink 'Khmel' / խմել reminds polish Chmiel 'Hmyel' - which is a hop plant from which the beer is made of. And finally also the word Stan is still used in Slavic - meaning state (geographic and physical) so in polish United States translates as Stany Zjednoczone - 'United Stans' All the best from Lehastan to Hayastan! 🇵🇱❤🇦🇲

@tatevikdanielyan8795 Год назад

Wow, interesting observations, never noticed the similarities of above words

@jurekfryczkowski6674 Год назад

@@tatevikdanielyan8795 Ok, so let's also add some poetic words: heart - sirt /սիրտ = 'sertse' in Slavic and Mernem /Մեռնեմ~ Marniejem - I will die/wither away..

@tatevikdanielyan8795 Год назад

@@jurekfryczkowski6674 wow!

@rubeng160 Год назад

I would add the word "eye" too. In Slavic, it is oko - an eye, ochi - eyes. In Armenian, achq - an eye, achqer - eyes. But in Old Armenian, in times of Mesrop Mashtots, it was more similar to Slavic: akn - oko, achq - ochi. Even in modern Armenian glasses - aknots from Old Armenian akn - oko - an eye.

@rubeng160 Год назад

Actually, there are many implicit connections between Armenian and Slavic, even though most of them aren't easily noticeable. Armenian "yes em" (I am) - Polish "jestem" Armenian "du es" (you are) - Polish "ty jesteś" (you are) Armenian "na e" (he/she/it is) - Western Armenian "an e" - Polish "on jest" (he is) Armenian "menq" (we) - Polish "my" (we) Armenian "nranq" (they) - Western Armenian "anonq" - Polish "one" (they) Armenian "durr" (a door) - Polish "drzwi" (a door) Armenian "kov" (a cow) - Polish "krowa" (a cow) Armenian "shogh" (a ray, glimpse) - Old Armenian pronunciation "shol" - Polish "słońce" (the sun) Russian "luch" (a ray) - Armenian "luys" (light) Armenian "utel" (to eat) - Polish "jeść" (to eat) Armenian "əmpel" (to drink) - Polish "pić" (to drink) Armenian "tal" (to give) - Polish "dawać" (to give) Armenian "yeghnik" (deer) - Old Armenian pronunciation "yelnik" - Polish "jeleń" (deer) Armenian "muk" (a mouse) - Polish "mysz" (a mouse) Armenian "gluh" (a head) - Polish "głowa" (a head) Armenian "ashun" (autumn) - Polish "jesień" (autumn) Armenian "dzmerr" (winter) - Polish "zima" (winter) Armenian "dzyun" (snow) - Old Armenian "dziwn (snow) - Polish "śnieg" (snow) Armenian "amp" (a cloud) - Western Armenian "amb" - Polish "niebo" (the sky) Armenian "lusin" (the moon) - Polish "łuna" (glow) - Russian "luna" (the moon) Armenian "amis" (a month) - Polish "miesiąc" (a month) There are some less noticeable cognates The Armenian "ezr" (edge) is actually a cognate to Polish "jezioro" (a lake). Also there is an interesting history about the word which means "a god". Armenian "astvats" (a god) derives from "assu-tiwaz". And "tiw" in Old Armenian meant a god, an idol. It was a cognate with Sanskrit "dev" - a god and the modern Ukrainian word "dyvo" for "a miracle". Also, "div" was a pagan Slavic god too. Modern Armenian has "dev" word too, as a borrowing from Persian, but it means "a monster, devil" now. Because Indian Aryans believed "dev" to be good gods and "ashura" - bad gods, but Iranian Aryans, on the contrary, believed "ahura" good gods and "dev" bad gods.

@alancantu2557 Год назад

So happy to see LangFocus make a video on Armenian! It’s such a beautiful language and culture that doesn’t usually get a lot of attention. Love from Mexico! 🇲🇽❤️🇦🇲

@sprc155 Год назад

My overseas friend, everyone in Europe who wasn't a colonizer, is more interesting than the Western Europe!

@LiluAmi Год назад

Muchas gracias! Abrazos desde Armenia! 🇦🇲❤🇲🇽

@MsMimo07 9 месяцев назад

@@sprc155 wut

@sprc155 9 месяцев назад

@@MsMimo07 in your butt 😂

@blotzkrog Год назад

love to my Armenian brothers and sisters from Iran💖

@harmony5807 Год назад

Love Iran from Armenia, our bond is so special, and it is to be truly cherished. May be one day the entire humanity can live in peace and unity though. Blessings

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

Bakı,Təbriz, Ankara biz hara farslar hara

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

Soon we will liberate South Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος was the water cold?

@haykvardanyan6349 Год назад

@@harmony5807 our bond?? what bond

@Nabium Год назад

It's fun to see these Armenian cognates to my own native Norwegian language. Like tun, which means home in Armenian and homestead in Norwegian. Or light, which is lys in Norwegian and luys in Armenian, and pronounced very similar. They both developed from old proto-indo-european words, but developed in a similar way in terms of pronunciation. The english word 'light' comes from the same root, but light and lys sounds very different, so fun to see Armenian and Norwegian randomly developing in the same direction with these two words. And apparently tun is a cognate to english town, dutch tuin(garden), gaelic dún(fortress). Garden, town, homestead, fortress and home all have different meanings, but you can see how one word developed to mean these different things in different places. Understanding language development makes you appreciate your own history and roots, and how you are connected to other cultures and human beings. In the end, we're all brothers and sisters on earth, if you go far enough back. Except for Swedes of course, they're special.

@SJ-ym4yt Год назад

As a Swede, I would be very upset right now if I could read

@Nabium Год назад

@@SJ-ym4yt :) I love you brother, just don't tell the other Swedes, they should not know us Norwegian really love you guys. We're trying to hide it with jokes and taunts.

@SJ-ym4yt Год назад

@@Nabium haha, right back at you fam

@Nabium Год назад

@@SJ-ym4yt What do you call 'tun' in Swedish?

@SJ-ym4yt Год назад

@@Nabium Tuna, it seems. I can’t think of any usage of the word in day to day language, but you’ll find it in many toponyms. Eskilstuna, Vallentuna, Sigtuna etc

@neweshtar Год назад

Love and respect to all Armenian's brothers and sisters Barev Hayastan from Iran 💞

@kingmike7965 Год назад

Long live Parskastan and Hayastan 🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷

@narkhachatryan8152 Год назад

🇦🇲❤🇮🇷

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

Long live South Azerbaijan, soon we will liberate our Tabriz 🇦🇿❤️

@cyrusmokhtarinia499 Год назад

@@YALQUZAQ_AZlong live our northern Iranian cities such as Baku, Ganje and many others.

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

@@cyrusmokhtarinia499 We will liberate South Azerbaijan, Tabriz will be capital of Great Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

@bubbajenkins123 Год назад

I want to be Armenian when I grow up

@Langfocus Год назад

lol

@vshlearning7230 Год назад

Your first step is to read the book “Refutation of the Sects” by Yeznik from Kolb

@gladysderhovanesian2187 Год назад

@@vshlearning7230 😂😂😂

@official.armenian.military1520 Год назад

Lol

@amberlewis5003 Год назад

Elif Shafaks- The bastard of Istanbul is also a good novel if you want to become Armenian lol

@ancraiteee7319 Год назад

Respect to my armenian brothers from Greece🇬🇷

@armennavoyan4665 Год назад

👍👍👍Greece and Armenia 👍👍👍

@user-nv4lc6yy7o Год назад

Yekhpayrer!!!!

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

One nation two states 🇦🇿🇹🇷🤘🏻🐺

@vickyk1861 Год назад

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ Turkish troll detected Langfocus please remove bloodthirsty spammers

@EllinikiDimokratia Год назад

@EU IS THE STRONGEST🇪🇺 Why should we ever side with turks who massacred our people like they were nothing? We rather side with nazis than with Turkish State that wills to people only death and nothing more.

@diomuda7903 Год назад

I am of Czech descent, and I found Armenian language beautiful and monastic. I have used to hear Armenian church rehearsal when I was in Gyumri for a personal trip only. I still listen to Armenian church rehearsals on RU-vid and I am very pleased to hear. It's exotic and magical.

@sargis_02 Год назад

The Armenian used in church ceremonies is especially magical, because it’s ancient Armenian (գրաբար/grabar)

@sonashahinyan2717 Год назад

To je staroarménština [grabar] - je nádherná, ale učí se už jen na univerzitách u nás v Jerevanu :)

@GreenApple1964 Год назад

I hope you will visit Armenia again

@costernocht Год назад

@@sargis_02 I love the church architecture. Many Armenian churches here in L.A., especially Glendale.

@jamesthomashtunkyaw5682 Год назад

From Australia, love you Armenia, you are proud and cool people, and so is your language. 🇦🇺❤️🇦🇲

@andrewdunbar828 Год назад

I hitchhiked to Yerevan from Germany back in 2010 and when I got to the hostel there I found out it was owned by Armenian Aussies! (Or Aussie Armenians, I forget...)

@davit244 Год назад

As someone who’s born in Armenia and has researched the other Armenian dialects as well as the Western Armenian, I’m truly impressed for your thorough illustration and coverage!!

@BilalAli-qn7gh Год назад

The biggest church in Baghdad is the Armenian Orthodox Church!

@walktroughman1952 Год назад

As a native of Greek, I was initially like "nahh what could Armenian have in similarity" Then as the video progressed, holy crap, *this feels like Greek with different words*

@Biospark88 Год назад

Like Greek with Turkified grammar and Persian loanwords, which makes perfect sense considering what it was in contact with.

@noway6379 Год назад

@@Biospark88 Turkic grammar? Turks were living in caves somewhere in Mongolia when Mesrop Mashtots put the Armenian language together in 5th century.

@qapra Год назад

@@Biospark88 I do agree that there is Turkish and Persian loan words, and you could argue there is some Turkish influence on grammar because of agglutination, but agglutination did exist prior to Turkic presence in the Armenian Highlands or Iran. What would be more notable grammar wise is to say Urartian/Hurrian for its non-PEI grammar influences.

@iskambillordu Год назад

@@noway6379 turks were ruling all eurasian steppes during 5th century as gokturks. Learn some history you racist sh.t

@Biospark88 Год назад

@@qapra interesting - the case system and word order remind me of Turkish, as well as some words like gal ‘come’, see Turkish gelmek but it’s definitely more complicated than that

@Biospark88 Год назад

FINALLY. I’m only a quarter Armenian but it excites me greatly to see some recognition on the channel. Not even Duolingo has an Armenian course. I’ve been wanting to gain a passing familiarity with this ancient branch of the Indo-European family tree and your videos make it more digestible than anyone else’s I’ve seen.

@user-nv4lc6yy7o Год назад

I’m just 1/8th Armenian from Bursa but I just feel it like my culture. Sirum em Hayastanæ

@shapedcreature Год назад

same here!!

@mcmerry2846 Год назад

My trigonometric teacher was Armenian, his name was Vasken. Pretty good teacher.

@seid3366 Год назад

Lingapp has an Armenian course. You can use that as a very basic start

@Adrian-ju7cm Год назад

Still your people be proud

@CilicianElite 11 месяцев назад

What an amazing breakdown of the Armenian language.

@Jason-cu2tz Год назад

Nice and ancient language. Respect and cheers from 🇦🇱guy

@kingkarlos2054 Год назад

Përshëndetje Shqipe, faleminderit. Edhe unë shumë dua gjuha Shqipe, unë mësoj kjo gjuha e bukur🇦🇲❤️🇦🇱👐🏻

@Jason-cu2tz Год назад

@@kingkarlos2054 hi buddy, well done

@renespecht5279 Год назад

I’ve been to Armenia just a few weeks ago and just started to learn the language and this video shows up… Maan, I just fell in love with the country and would like to discover more of it and its language (of course)-what a pleasantly surprising coincidence! :D

@arielcruz6872 Год назад

Hey, my friend! What resources are you using to study Armenian? I ask you because I had started to learn it, but I gave up due to the lack of material and got demotivated...

@watson494 Год назад

I would love to know what resources you are using too! My girlfriend is Armenian and I want to learn the language.

@fartz3808 Год назад

Lol same I was in Armenia a few weeks ago as well, for the first time! It's left such a mark on me, the people there are absolutely beautiful

@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Год назад

Arminian is very slimier to Persian but than again is anyone really surprised ? Armenia , Afghanistan and Azerbaijan an Turkey where part of Iran , Yerevan means lost garden in Persian Turkey split from Iran after the Mongol invasion of Persia and became its own empire later on , the Safavid Turks created the Safavid empire in Iran , the suljik Turks setup the ottoman empire after the Mongols converted to Islam , Azerbaijan left Iran in the late 1700's and Armenia left Iran in the late 1800"s

@renespecht5279 Год назад

@@arielcruz6872 , well, I’m a polyglot, so I use multilingual resources-and they are mostly in Russian unfortunately

@mikhailkarapetyants7066 Год назад

I'm half armenian and I speak just a bit of armenian (the last person in our family to speak armenian fluently was my grand grandfather), still I visit Armenia a lot and every time it feels like coming home. Cheers from Vienna!

@Minnie.7841 Год назад

im half armenian too

@BangFarang1 Год назад

Great grand-father.

@haygij Год назад

And you have an ancient Armenian last name as well. Unfortunately, Armenians have dropped the ts and I think it's a shame. The meaning stays the same but still...

@mikhailkarapetyants7066 Год назад

Exactly! When I was in Yerevan last time the taxi driver didn't believe that it's an Armenian last name 😅

@user-pe5zf5lu7k 7 месяцев назад

@@Minnie.7841really? Where are you from?

@mravalik Год назад

As a learning speaker of Armenian, I have been waiting for this for the longest time. Although I cannot read Armenian yet, it is an absolutely fascinating language, being that it is ancient and an language isolate. Barev dzez, ser yev hargank' hay zhoghovrdi handep' sovorogh banakhosits 😌 urakh'yem tsanutsanalu hamar, lav or yem maghtum 💙

@carlosmagalhaes7109 Год назад

Is that in the end of your comment Armenian in Latin transliteration? It looks like Turkish.

@carlosmagalhaes7109 Год назад

@Will Mellquist Yeah, I thought of Basque when they said Armenian was an isolated language.

@danielantony1882 Год назад

@@carlosmagalhaes7109 It _is_ Armenian.

@danielantony1882 Год назад

Good job with the Armenian. In the Latin script, we don't transliterate Ե literally. We write it as it sounds. So it's just E(Է): Urakh'yem is just Urakhem, Hargank' is Harganq, and Yem is Em. Ե itself is technically read as Ye, but in words, it is usually always read as E. Otherwise, your sentence is 90% correct. The only awkward part is Tsanotanalu Hamar because Tsanotanal by itself has the correct conjugation that implies that you're specifically pleased to meet them, so you say it as Urakhem tsanotanal.

@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Год назад

@jeffmorse645 Год назад

I've lived and have family in Fresno, California. Large Armenian community there and interesting to learn more about where they're from and their language and alphabet (which I've seen written on their churches here). Once in a while you'll hear older folks or new immigrants speaking it, but most are totally assimilated and have been here for generations. Have to say I love their food!

@user-lm9fr3jc5p 2 месяца назад

As a Turkish speaker Western Armenian sounds really cool to me. Especially being able to recognise some words here and there is nice. I also love the fact that Western Armenian is largely based on the Istanbul Armenian dialect, just like standard modern Turkish is based on Istanbul Turkish. I hope that Western Armenian will always be spoken and written in its homeland Turkey. ❤🇦🇲

@hookplay7229 2 месяца назад

Maybe your ancestors were armenians?

@user-lm9fr3jc5p Месяц назад

@@hookplay7229 no they weren’t I have immigration background and my family isn’t ethnically Turkish. But the culture in Turkey is a fusion of all different Anatolian cultures, including Armenian cultures and I love all Anatolian cultures.

@anchorofthenightsky 11 месяцев назад

i’m from azerbaijan, and i think that armenian is a beautiful language. the country is also beautiful. this was a delight to watch. isn’t caucasia beautiful?

@NotFunny95 5 месяцев назад

Glad to hear that, appreciate it. Thank you❤

@Maya-ii1hl 3 месяца назад

You are adekvat Azeri 😅 👍👀🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 is cool

@user-zr8mm9ib8s Месяц назад

Cəfəngiyyət

@magnuslindgren5640 7 дней назад

I wonder if this is real. Only time I see azeri person not denying Armenia their existence and spreading their dictatorships hatefull propaganda.

@user-zr8mm9ib8s 7 дней назад

Çirkindir. Düşmənin dili. Eşidəndə çəkdiyimiz əzab yadıma düşür.

@C_B_Hubbs Год назад

My middle school math teacher was from Armenia and I remember her reciting the Armenian alphabet and some common words to us students, just for entertainment. Ever since then I have been slightly fascinated by the language.

@nothing5693 Год назад

Was she a baddie?

@irreligiousman3395 Год назад

Ethiopian political scientist, author of many books and researcher of the legacy of the Ethiopian emperors, professor Tecola Hagos: "I was shocked to learn that the Armenians stole our alphabet I was simply amazed that the Armenians so skillfully, shamelessly, cynically and obscenely distorted historical facts. I was just shocked when I first picked up a book written in Armenian. At first I thought it was in Ethiopian, since the letters were from our ancient alphabet. In perplexity, I leafed through this book in a language I did not understand, and before my eyes ancient copies of one of the most ancient alphabets in the world - Ethiopian - came to life. It was a copy of the letters that our ancestors wrote thousands of years ago. I, almost screaming in surprise, showed these letters to my friend, a historian from Addis Ababa University. He smiled and said to me: "Didn't you know? When we stopped writing in our own letters, the Armenians presented them to the whole world as the Armenian alphabet. I devoted several of my lectures to this topic at the university. World science knows that this is the Ethiopian alphabet. , but the Armenians are promoting it to the whole world as their own "

@ierof1 Год назад

@@irreligiousman3395 Is it a sample of Turkish humour?

@chinares Год назад

@@ierof1 It’s a sample of Azerbaijani propaganda and Armenophobia.

@qwerasdf3420 Год назад

@@ierof1 sample of hard facts

@usuario9870 Год назад

Armenian is a very interesting language Love and respect from Brazil 🇧🇷🇦🇲

@babyr4836 Год назад

Its REAL INTRESTING

@merodaxue Год назад

@@Jake-hi9hq get your two towers back again

@M4th3u54ndr4d3 Год назад

@@Jake-hi9hq unnecessary and racist comment...

@edsondocarmo3065 Год назад

@@Jake-hi9hq enjoyed ur happy 9-11 National day ?

@Jake-hi9hq Год назад

@@edsondocarmo3065 a terrorist attack isn't something to be enjoyed. You should have more respect for the many lives that were lost,you should respect our sorrow. It isn't shameful to be a victim of a terrorist attack,how could we know that would happen...but having the fame the Brazilians have does. Really shameful 🤣🤣🤣 Hola,take your Banana. Banana y tequila. Enjoy 🤣

@schifoso5591 Год назад

Crazy that I was just about to start learning Armenian and see this show up

@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Год назад

Arminian is very slimier to Persian but than again is anyone really surprised ? Armenia , Afghanistan and Azerbaijan where part of Iran , Yerevan means lost garden in Persian Also ironically , Iraqi's major population in Baghdad and central Iraq are more related to Iran than to Arabs in terms of DNA , especially Baghdad and Basra , they are Indo-European descent . Iraqi's in Baghdad are almost identical to Persians in southern Iran and central Iran

@arvantsaraihan5777 Год назад

17:20 that Armenian calque of the word logic, "tramabanut'yun" have such a beautiful roots of meaning, and it roughly means "solid words".

@Secular_Iran_GE Год назад

much love and respect to our Aryan-armenian brothers from Iran,we both were the ancient nations borders and nations throughout the history,by the way we have many armenians in Iran and their churches ,especially in isfahan and other iranian cities

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

There are more than 35 million Azerbaijanis in South Azerbaijan,Tabriz is ours 🇦🇿❤️

@Secular_Iran_GE Год назад

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ thats mongol imagination and lie,there are only 16-20 million iranian azeris with their iranian culture

@Kurdo_Barznji_Slemani Год назад

@@Secular_Iran_GE They are Mongol Turks. They are not Azeris, Azeri is a lie made by Iranian nationalists People who live in East Azerbaijan province in Iran are Turks, they should be kicked out or obeyed by force

@frankozrin5611 Год назад

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ go back to Central Asia, you belong to Kazakhstan 😉

@VM-ee5hc Год назад

Why are you still slaves to desert cult, why not revert to the great zoroastrian culture?

@siriusblack8786 Год назад

i am a native turkish speaker and love armenian language, especially the alphabet is looks so good and armenian sounds amazing, i want to learn it soon. ☺️

@user-gd3dx4pd8q Год назад

Для этого нужно терпение. Армянский не похож на турецкий ни по звучанию ни по письменности.

@siriusblack8786 Год назад

@@user-gd3dx4pd8q i can’t understand…

@ilgazmore Год назад

@@siriusblack8786 çeviriden baktım da "Ermenice ne ses ne de yazı olarak Türkçeye benzemez öğrenmek için sabır gerekli." demiş.

@cestmoidelavie Год назад

Hi from Turkey or Türkiye. I have always loved the original letters of the Armenian alphabet. They are so artistic.

@user-gd3dx4pd8q Год назад

Они уникальные потому что их создали люди , которые были в научной экспедиции по Ближнему востоку. Они посещали библиотеки , изучали многие алфавиты и Месроп Маштоц был их лидером. Он не только создал алфавит но и открыл школы для обучения и перевел Библию со своими учениками

@mehebbetmireliyev1245 Год назад

Sen Türkmüsün?!

@holyarmor578 Год назад

@@mehebbetmireliyev1245 cry azergayjani 😭 🐐💨🇦🇿

@mehebbetmireliyev1245 Год назад

@@holyarmor578 Soxum sənin yaşayışına! ancaq belə şeylər düzəldməyə götünüz çatar!!!

@cato9105 Год назад

@@mehebbetmireliyev1245 Anatolians not real Turks

@saraabraham9963 Год назад

Love to Armenia from USA.

@XVYQ_EY Год назад

Finally, the only remaining indoeuropean language that isn't part of any family. I was waiting for this for years...

@Romulan64 Год назад

What about Greek and Albanian? 😝

@XVYQ_EY Год назад

@@Romulan64 Greek: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OIB5SKG3no0.html Albanian: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ypSLGG2SwSw.html

@John_Weiss Год назад

"Subfamily" would be a better word for it.

@funfoxvlad7309 Год назад

@Will Mellquist what other language is part of the Helenic language branch?

@basedbartholomew3968 Год назад

@@funfoxvlad7309 tsakonian

@Milamila-fn7vg Год назад

I am fluent in English, Russian and Armenian, and I understand all dialects of Armenian language. Thank you!

@elmirhatamli7240 Год назад

Uzum ek xosel?

@tyelejames4103 Год назад

You could save the world, use it!

@mishthay5756 Год назад

@@elmirhatamli7240 duq vortexiceq?

@elmirhatamli7240 Год назад

@@mishthay5756 aşxariç)

@mishthay5756 Год назад

@@elmirhatamli7240 duq hemşenci eq)?

@qapra Год назад

To answer LangFocus's call to action at the end: I am an Armenian speaker from the US who grew up being taught both English and Eastern Armenian (Yerevan dialect, second generation immigrant) as my first languages. I have surprisingly less exposure to Western Armenian in the US than you would think. But I usually have an easy time understanding Western Armenian speakers, but the same isn't true the other way around, with asymmetric mutual intelligibility. Despite media from Armenia typically being in the same dialect I speak, and therefore there being exposure to it in the diaspora like how most of the world gets exposed to specifically Californian English media; it still seems like Westerns have more trouble understanding Eastern than the other way around in my family's case. I am not qualified to speak on Western speakers behalf but that has been my experience so far.

@chraman169 Год назад

Where is the comment you replied to is it deleted? I want to respond but it's gone

@TeamSlow Год назад

@@chraman169 they were replying to the question at the end of the video.

@chraman169 Год назад

@@TeamSlow No not that I had an argumrnt with this guy

@shroomcraftgames Год назад

from my experience as a western armenian living in armenia, the difficulty is not necessarily the accent itself but the speed in which its spoken (mainly in yerevan) plus the huge amount of russian words used in daily conversation. i have also found that i have a much more easier time understanding people from the Lori and Tavush regions for some reason

@aybgim3850 Год назад

@@shroomcraftgames Yerevan dialect is quite specific and very different from standard EA although I guess most local residents don't actually realize it and think that they are speaking "THE proper language". This may be typical for capital cities - e.g. London and Berlin. Have you heard the dialect of Gyumri? I think it is much closer to WA. And yes, Russian words are everywhere. Armyanski yazyky Kirovabadi narodna saxranit arel u priumnojit :)

@ryenick28 Год назад

So excited to watch this. Armenian related topics fascinates me the most.

@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Год назад

Arminian is very slimier to Persian but than again is anyone really surprised ? Armenia , Afghanistan and Azerbaijan were part of Iran , Yerevan means lost garden in Persian Also ironically , Iraqi's major population in Baghdad and central Iraq are more related to Iran than to Arabs in terms of DNA , especially Baghdad and Basra , they are Indo-European descent ( Indo-Germanic ) . Iraqi's in Baghdad are almost identical to Persians in southern Iran and central Iran

@bogjesrbin484 Год назад

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Yerevan was never a Persian city, so you must be wrong. It was founded in Urartu as Erebuni castle

@mutantboy1948 Год назад

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Bro, Armenian has nothing to do with the Persian language. Only some loanwords, because Persia had Periods of Time where they ruled over the Armenian people. Same as with Russian

@chinares 9 месяцев назад

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924Yerevan might mean anything in any language but that would not mean that is what Armenia’s capital’s name means. It has nothing to do with lost gardens at all. 😉

@HosseinNouri Год назад

Greetings to one of the oldest and most cultivated and talented nations around the world 🔥 love and support to you, the bright heart nation from Persia. 🇮🇷❤️🇦🇲

@HosseinNouri Год назад

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος Greeks are our historical cousins we know that ❤️ in Persian sources about Alexander the great and Byzantine empire, it is always mentioned that they have a very similar manners and cultures to the Persians and Persians were calling themselves as the "Sons of Perseus". Love from Persia to the magnificent nation of Greece. 🇮🇷❤️🇬🇷❤️🇦🇲

@alancantu2557 Год назад

Iran help save Armenia and Artsakh! 💪🏽

@profilepicture828 Год назад

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος thats tajikistan

@HosseinNouri Год назад

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος Persians and Greeks must unite and take back Anatolia together with Armenians just like the past 🇮🇷🫱🏻‍🫲🏼🇬🇷🫱🏻‍🫲🏼🇦🇲

@HosseinNouri Год назад

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος it will happen soon... It must have happened someday

@avinavar4818 Год назад

Growing up in LA/ San Fernando Valley, I’ve grown up and have loved so much the Armenian people and culture through the Armenian diaspora living here. It’s only fair I start learning the language too, as so many Armenians have learned Spanish to communicate with us Mexicans/ Latinos here as well! ❤️ 🇲🇽 🇦🇲

@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129 Год назад

The Armenian language has always been so interesting to me, considering how usually the constant among all other Indo-European languages is the origins of the numbers, but the Armenian numbers sound nothing like other IE numbers.

@user-gd3dx4pd8q Год назад

Так же только два и три звучат по другому.

@404_Nut_Found Год назад

some numbers are similar, like ութ "ut" / օխթ "ocht" (eight) ինը "inë" (nine) տաս "das/tas" (ten, deca-)

@armena8199 Год назад

Mostly similar. It’s really just 1,2,3 that’s a bit weird Chors (four, quatre, chatu) Hing (cinq, pent, funf, panj) Yot (old Armenian yoten, cognate to sieben, or septem) Ut (eights) Ine (ennea, nine) Tas (Dix, Da, Dec)

@armena8199 Год назад

And Mek (one) is cognate to Persian ‘yek’. Pretty much just leaves yergu (two) and yerek (three) which don’t really fit. Those could be loans from non indo Europeans.

@levonoganyan6183 Год назад

@@armena8199 It actually is a cognate. From wiktionary for yerku: "From Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. The combining forms երկո- (erko-) and երկի- (erki-) go back to Proto-Indo-European *dwo- and *dwi-, respectively. The unusual development of Proto-Indo-European *dw- into Old Armenian երկ- (erk-) has been extensively discussed. There is no universally accepted explanation."

@Vollzer Год назад

there is an Armenian diaspora in Bulgaria as well, mainly in Plovdiv with an Armenian church

@mazyarkhanlar8134 Год назад

The reason they are in Bulgaria because they escaped from Turks ,

@Vollzer Год назад

@@mazyarkhanlar8134 not only, we have Armenians banished by the East Roman empire since the 9th century here.

@RTAvakian Год назад

@@mazyarkhanlar8134 Older. It is located in the old town, and predates the genocide by many generations. I unexpectedly met many Armenians in Plodviv.

@mazyarkhanlar8134 Год назад

@@RTAvakian Turks did wrong to them

@RTAvakian Год назад

@@mazyarkhanlar8134 That's an understatement. The death, trauma, and continued suffering is one part of the sad story... But still today, the sadness continues, as part of this story is the fact that the Turkish government has fought so hard to deny these parts of its own history. Even for the most progressive of Turks it is a taboo subject. Oddly enough, It means that Turkish citizens also feel victimization and antagonism from this tiny country to their east. The tragedy for Armenians and Turks alike is that there is no chance to move forward and build truly deep inter-personal friendships between on an individual level when the underlying foundational stories of both nations are so different... This story will always be standing there as a shadow over all conversations. But I have witnessed it only once in my life: The second that a Turkish person breaks that wall by saying, "I believe the genocide happened", all barriers come down immediately.

@Imita0903 Год назад

Oh I have been waiting for this video for so long, I'm so excited for it~

@viol2986 Год назад

omg me too,

@Hayastantzi92 Год назад

same, always commented to do Հայերեն

@drivemecrazy125 Год назад

100% same here

@cht5086 Год назад

In Iran I grew up with lovely Armenian families in our neighbourhood, Armenian is a beautiful but difficult language! ❤️💙💛 I am an Iranian Azeri, and I love Armenians, they have a rich culture, are very talented in music, very good at sports.

@kingmike7965 Год назад

Thank you man we are grateful for having such a kind hearted and loyalty family like you guys 🙏 Long live Atropanate and Hayk🇦🇲🇮🇷❤️

@Byzantine_empire Год назад

🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷

@lucasherissontrindade9888 Год назад

Brazil received a lot of armenians, in my city Sao paulo there's a neighborhood called "Armênia" 😁

@englishwithphil42 Год назад

Thank you for making this video. I am just back from my 7-day trip to Armenia. Armenia has an incredibly rich history and organically combines its own original culture and elements that come from the Western Europe, Persia, Caucasus, Russia and so on... It's incredible.

@martintuma9974 Год назад

15:37 Word for "to drink" sounds like a Czech word for hop, a plant that is necessary for brewing beer, our national drink. 🙂

@andreychulakhvarov7243 Год назад

Exactly same in Russian, and perhaps all Slavic languages. Russians also use it as a verb which has a meaning of “get tipsy”. Which is a step toward getting drunk, but not quite there yet:) Is it the same in Czech?

@Mynar123 Год назад

@@andreychulakhvarov7243 idk about czech, but its similar in polish

@janhavlis Год назад

@@andreychulakhvarov7243in czech, nachmelit se, ie. to get hopped means to get tipsy or mildly drunk, so yes :-)

@tonijon4465 Год назад

There is a small community of Armenians in Albania....Very respectful and noble peoples....

@baldarianagrande Год назад

Hey Paul, hope you'd consider covering Language families/branches as a unit, like your video on the Northern Germanic languages. I'm just really fascinated with seeing similarities and differences between related languages. Great video as always

@anneonymous4884 Год назад

He has a good one about the whole Indo-European family.

@tomrogue13 Год назад

And the Slavic family as well

@ferretyluv Год назад

Well, he’s done it as well with Albanian.

@CookieFonster Год назад

the sentence at 12:07 shows that as exotic as this language seems, it's still an indo-european language like english. there are some familiar parts to me as someone who learned german from family and french from school. it's a lot like "gestern bin ich gekommen" or "hier je suis arrivé" in those two languages respectively, which both use the verb for "to be" as an auxiliary for some (but not all) past tense verbs.

@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Год назад

Arminian is very slimier to Persian but than again is anyone really surprised ? Armenia was part of Iran , Yerevan means lost garden in Persian Also ironically , Iraqi's major population in Baghdad and central Iraq are more related to Iran than to Arabs in terms of DNA , especially Baghdad and Basra , they are Indo-European descent . Iraqi's in Baghdad are almost identical to Persians in southern Iran and central Iran

@felixlublasser1660 Год назад

Except those are developments that happened independent from each other and way after Armenian split off from either Germanic or Romance. So that in particular is more of a coincidence, really.

@baraodascolinas979 Год назад

@@felixlublasser1660 well, not a coincidence exactly, it is a mark of genetic relationship, meaning all indo'europeans have common ancestors from way back, we are all cousins that have grown apart for a while and changed a lot but we still have some childhood traits in commom. a coincidence in linguistics is when 2 languages share a word with common sound and meaning without having had any relation at all, and is extremely rare.

@guy1524 Год назад

@@Anhilare Yep, I think it's called language drift in the field

@John_Weiss Год назад

The use of the verb, "to be", as the auxillary-verb for the present- and past-perfective tenses occurs with intransitive-verbs, especially if not exclusively verbs of motion. That appears to be one of those "family-characteristics" that shows up in a large swath of Indo-European Languages.

@luishernandezblonde Год назад

As a Pole, I have a deep love to Armenia. Well, the first Christian nation, and the unique Indo-European language. You guys have endured so much horror in 20th century, and still manage to preserve it. 🇵🇱🇦🇲

@alancantu2557 Год назад

Armenia is still suffering tremendously today because of countries like Poland and the rest in NATO supporting the Turkish occupation. Of course, you won’t hear anything about that in the news because it’s not convenient or profitable. Armenia and Artsakh will be freed because the people there are strong. They will not forget those that were silent or complicit in the suffering.

@mertnecati875 Год назад

@@alancantu2557 Armenia suffers for choosing constantly corrupted politicans, chronic nepotism, finding no alternative other than being lapdogs of Russia, no serious investments or production. Nothing is about NATO, countries in UN out of NATO also declared Armenia as "invader" in land of Azerbaijan already, years ago. War is over, you can cry elsewhere, you hit them when they were weak and they stood up and took their land back, rightfully. Get civilized, get into real life instead of telling fairy tales to your crusader friends.

@chraman169 Год назад

@@alancantu2557 Dream on

@davidbowie5023 Год назад

@@alancantu2557 Funny. Russia also recognised Artsakh as Azerbaijani part even though it allowed smugglers to destabilise the Caucasus. Why don’t you blame Russia?

@vyacheslavzgordan6725 Год назад

@@alancantu2557 What Armenian is occupied by Turkey now?

@maitreyajambhulkar Год назад

7:03 in my native language Hindi, the word "thousand" is said "hazaar" it is adopted from Persian. Armenian, Persian and Hindi are very similar. Btw in Sanskrit , thousand is called " sahastra"

@johnnyCahuenga Год назад

Persian and Hindi are both part of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European

@devilangel4655 Год назад

Farsi is the mother language (Indo-Iranian) Then the closest ones are Pasto, Kurdish-Sorani. And then you have the similarities in Urdu/Hindi. (indo-arya) The others countries have some basic words inside like the arabic words for example (indo-European)

@RTAvakian Год назад

There are a bunch of cognates! (Hazar Gazar= 1000 carrot)

@egbront1506 Год назад

1000 in Hungarian is ezer. Also thought to have been a loan ultimately from Persian.

@jurekfryczkowski6674 Год назад

@@jsuisheureux1425 It's probably because of Iranic Sarmatian/Scythian horsemen presence on the Eurasian steppe all the way to today's China for centuries.

@x_Arone_x Год назад

Looking forward to this!! As a Turkish speaker i always wanted to learn Armenian because its such a interesting language

@user-sg3wc6ov6g Год назад

Theresa much a sourses fo It🙄

@x_Arone_x Год назад

@@user-sg3wc6ov6g nice 🙄

@artasheskeshishyan4281 Год назад

Merhaba Arkadaşım. Ben Ermeniyim ve Batı Ermenicesi konuşuyorum. Batı Ermenicesinin sentaksı %95 Türkçe gibidir. Yani siz Türkler için Batı Ermenicesi öğrenmeyi çok kolay. Ben bir yıldır Türkçe öğreniyorum ve görüyorum ki çok kolaydır. Bazı sözler bile aynı! Mesela, “altın kırıyor,” “gözü sivridir,” “gözü vurdu,” “doktor olmayı göt ister 😂,” “burnumdan getirdi,” ve “bu şehri yerle bir oldu.” Yani bu dillerin kökeni farklı ama ortak tarih sebeple bu ortak şeyleri var.

@tau2478 Год назад

@@artasheskeshishyan4281 "burnundan gətirmək" kimi bir ifadə Azərbaycan türkcəsində işlədilir. İstanbul türkcəsində belə ifadə qarşıma çıxmayıb

@fuatkaray9694 Год назад

@@tau2478 Var türkçede burnundan getirmek diye bir ifade(deyim). Mesela"Bir iş yapalım dedim burnumdan getirdin."

@annadavidiants4822 Год назад

Thank you for the video! I'm a half Armenian, but unfortunately I don't speak Armenian language. I hope one day I'll be able to speak it.

@mint4444 Год назад

Armenian is exceedingly complicated for English speakers, even if you are Armenian. Quite tragic really.

@Rithymna Год назад

Very interesting language of a great ancient nation! Greetings from Greece!

@Maharaaja. 6 месяцев назад

Ellada & Armenia💘💖

@Mendiar88 Год назад

Excellent... This is one of the most interesting languages for me. I'm from Colombia, and I have any Armenian roots. However, i feel a huge connection with their culture and their ancient traditions.

@geraninnstacmormery Год назад

You probably know of the city in Colombia named Armenia :)

@seid3366 Год назад

And it's helpful that Armenian is Indo-European like Spanish & English, so basic vocab and grammar will click.

@Mendiar88 Год назад

@@geraninnstacmormery Of course. I lived there some time. It had a name before: Villa Holguín. But, after the Hammidian Massacres, it changed its name to Armenia.

@Mendiar88 Год назад

@@seid3366 Yes, but armenian language is one of the oldest from the indoeuropean family that still survive with no important changes. It's even a unique branch inside that family.

@seid3366 Год назад

Correct. But with the most basic stuff, you'll see the resemblance, ex. Verbs with thematic vowels

@Nostalgia-pc6hb Год назад

In Brazil we have a subway station called Armenia in S Paulo because of the Armenian immigration.

@arminek.1310 Год назад

It warms my heart to see so many people in the comments fascinated by and just generally appreciative of our language. Whether you're fully Armenian but not acquainted with the culture in the diaspora, part Armenian and looking to connect with your roots, or not at all Armenian and just taking an interest in the language, your efforts towards learning and speaking the language are greatly appreciated and encouraged!

@johan_johansson_ Год назад

Paul, thanks again to your endeavors in opening cultures and languages around the globe 🗺

@holyarmor578 Год назад

Arme iska är otroligt intressant och Armenien är väldigt historiskt.

@mikhailkadatov7925 Год назад

In the south-west of Russia there are 3 groups of Western Armenian dialects: 1)Hamshen dialects (migrants of 1915-21 from Trabzon, Ordu, Djenick, etc.) settled in Abkhazia and Krasnodar region of Russia, close to the Black sea), the end of infunitive -ush (not -el), ex. "desnush" (not "desnel") - "to see", "rt" is replaced by "sht" - "vasht" - a rose (not "vart"), "o" goes instead "a" - "pon" (not "pan" - "a thing"), etc. There are a lot of Turckic borrowings. 2)Dialect of Nor Nakhichevan (Rostov-on-Don and 8 Armenian villages nearby, since 1779). It is the closest dialect to the Armenian dialect of Istanbul, but there are a lot of Turckic borrowings in vocabulary (20%). "Sht" goes instead of "rt". 3)Kars dialect of village Shaymyan (south of Rostov region, since 1924). In all 3 dialects we can observe strong Russian language influence. I can show the whole situation speaking only about Nor Nakhichevan dialect. In 19th century the most part of documents was written in Grabar. Also local Arnenians had an opportunity to study only Grabar at school. In the first part of 20th century most Armenian children attended schools where all subjects were taught in Eastern Armenian (the only official Armenian language in Soviet Union), but at home they used their dialect. The difference between this diakect and standart Esatern Armenian is great, and sometimes people cannot understand each other. Since 1960s up to nowadays Armenians living in rural area have an opportunity ti study Armenian at school, but Eastern Armenian. Most people are for studung Standart Western Armenian. In big town Rostov-on-Don there are several schools and churches offer courses of Eastern Armenian. But the number of native Armenian speakers is less in the town, than in the ryral area. Also in town there is a big amount of Armenian migrants speaking different Eastern and Western dialects.

@holyarmor578 Год назад

@@mikhailkadatov7925 Very interesting indeed!

@kaylarsarksyan7857 Год назад

I'm an eastern Armenian speaker from Iran. We have an accent which comes from the Persian. We use a lot of Persian words in our daily conversations which is the main reason Armenians from Armenia have difficulties understanding us (but Armenian from Armenia use a lot of Russian words which we don't understand). Besides the loan words, we understand each other completely. Fun fact: The Iranian Armenian writing have some differences with Yerevan dialect. like 'յ' is pronounced 'h' not ե. for example 7 is եօթ not յոթ. Also as you've seen we have some rules that we write օ instead of ո in some cases and է instead of ե. For the Western Armenian, we struggle to understand it. There are pronunciation, vocabulary (mostly influenced by Arabic and Turkish) and grammatical differences.

@kimforestleaf Год назад

The non-reformed orthography is used the exact same way in western armenian, manande guyeshe armanye Iran 😊

@franzyuri5751 Год назад

Hi Kaylar! Is there a special status for the Armenian community in Iran? By that I mean schools that teach Armenian, an special kind of government and so on, or the Armenians are mixed with the rest of the population?

@AIMalek Год назад

@@franzyuri5751 i'm not armenian but i know there is a church and armenian school in our city(and it's isn't that big of a city)

@hambikv8005 Год назад

@@franzyuri5751 There are Armenian churches and schools in Iran, in which Armenian history, literature, grammar etc. is taught in Armenian alongside the rest of the curriculum which is in Persian. Like extra lessons.

@Thatboymeher Год назад

Woah your an Armenian from Iran but your last name is yan and not ian…..that’s a first

@Radek494 Год назад

Love Armenia from Poland.

@cato9105 Год назад

Are you polish? How old are you?

@maratmanukyan1325 Год назад

🇦🇲♥️🇵🇱

@alecsimoni5876 Год назад

Thank you LangFocus for making this video. It made my week! As a native speaker of Armenian located in the American diaspora, I grew up hearing both Western and Eastern Armenian. As a result, me and my friends are able to blend the two into a dialect we understand perfectly, but can confuse older generations. We can differentiate between the two without a problem when necessary, but why bother when with friends. Your analysis of the language was spot on, apris (bravo)!

@Albanian.12 Год назад

I am so excited abt this language! I am a huge fan of armenian culture, cities, music, history and mostly of armenian language and scripts … Love you Hayastan 🇦🇲 From an albanian from Kosovo 🇽🇰 🇦🇱

@artasheskeshishyan4281 Год назад

Thank you very much my Albanian friend! 🇦🇲 🇦🇱 🇽🇰

@gizemliarkadas5233 Год назад

44 days

@gtc239 Год назад

@@gizemliarkadas5233 M8, this video and comment has nothing to do with wars, so just be tolerant for god sake.

@Dikranovski Год назад

@@gizemliarkadas5233 So edgy and full of hate......

@BIazy Год назад

@@gtc239 what's 44 days

@nonosh Год назад

Thank you for this highly educative video. Thanks to you, as a native Western Armenian speaker born & raised in the Armenian-American diaspora, I was finally able to recall the primary education from my Armenian day school in Caifornia; as such, I recommend all diasporic Armenian speakers to watch this video and learn the language's fundaments from your finely researched details. Երկար ապրիք ու բարգավաճիք։ 🖖

@arifyanar8348 Год назад

As ı Kurd and ı living Turkey. I love Armenian languages and sounds. Maybe one day ı will learn this amazing language.. Thank's for the video.Also I can speak Kurdish and Kurdish is a part of İndio-Europian language like Armenian . A big hug from me my Armenian brothers. ♥️😍

@arifyanar8348 Год назад

@Tigran Hakobyan Thank's for your good wish bro. ♥️😍

@aelarisa983 Год назад

Biji Kurd u Kurdistan. Greetings from Greece.

@arifyanar8348 Год назад

@@aelarisa983 ✌️♥️♥️

@parseghi Год назад

her bijî berxwedanê bijî Kurdistana azad!🇦🇲❤️☀️💚

@arifyanar8348 Год назад

@@parseghi ✌️💛♥️💚

@user-ud1oi4mb7k Год назад

The Western Armenian and the Eastern Armenian are almost mutually intelligible. As a native Eastern Armenian speaker, I can easily understand Western Armenian written text (though in the Western Armenian they use more conservative orthography). Understanding Western Armenian speech is a little bit harder, but that's not critical. Minor dialects within Eastern or Western Armenian are very easy to understand if you already speak one of them. Thank you for the video! Greetings from Yerevan

@karogaloyan750 Год назад

Actually, all Armenian dialects are understandable, no matter it's Western Armenian or Eastern Armenian. Even Hamsheni dialect, which is the most isolated one is still understandable for me.

@donmarley69 Год назад

Pretty sure Musaler or Kessab, Sasun or Artsakh dialects isn’t easy for most. There are some recordings of Hadjin Armenian and generally the rurul distant dialects can be quite challenging despite them being entirely rooted in Armenian with different transformations and internal rules. I’m a Western Armenian speaker who knows Turkish and Hamshen Armenian can be hard at times mainly due to not knowing its rules. Otherwise I get the jisht of it, it helps to know Turkish. Onnik Dinkjian’s Dikranagerd dialect recordings in his latest album are easier because it’s an urban dialect but again, it helps to know Turkish and how it’s manipulated.

@jaykaufman9782 Год назад

I'm always struck by cognates within the Indo-European language family, that seem to come out of nowhere. The Armenian for good morning, "good + light" bari luys, immediately reminded me of Swedish for "light" -- ljus, where the letter J is pronounced like a Y. (And the initial L isn't pronounced at all.) As in the concluding phrase of Genesis, Chap. 1, "Varde ljus," "Let there be light."

@gidemnas Год назад

The verb "Varel" means to lit in Armenian strong R pronounced Also adjective "VaR" means vivid or bright "Da" "ed" or "ayd" means "that" "Var(i) ed luyse" means "lit that light" in Armenian

@annagrigoryan4909 Год назад

Dear Paul, thank you for your awesome video, I would be brave enough to claim, that this is the most informative and detailed video in RU-vid. A big thank you to all kind comments and for appreciating the beauty of our language! ❤️💙🧡

@LuzifersShadow Год назад

Damn, I'm a native speaker but am still confused at our grammar xD I speak the Eastern variety of Armeniam since most of my family lives in Yerevan but I do understand Western Armenian since my dad grew up in Istanbul :)

@larsw8776 Год назад

Thank you very much for covering this intriguing language! I know your language videos since long. I love how you present grammatical features, going to the core of it but at the same time leaving it on an overview level.

@s.l.l4506 Год назад

Love our Armenian brothers from 🇮🇷❤️🇦🇲

@Byzantine_empire Год назад

🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷

@darthvader9665 Год назад

As a kurdish person i love our armenian brothers

@darthvader9665 Год назад

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος they are the liked cousins

@darthvader9665 Год назад

Greeks more however mostly cause of what persians did in safavid times but we forgive

@darthvader9665 Год назад

@@Anhilare we aknowledge it and we are ashamed of it we have apologised mamy times but no number of times of apologising is enough for spilling innocent blood, we truly became what we where fghting against and its easily the darkest thing that we have ever done

@ibrahimk8271 Год назад

@@Anhilare i guess you don't know what is the meaning of genocide. 1- kurds tried to be constructive to armenians and assyrians but they indulged and tried to clear kurdish people for great armenia and asyria with backing european global power. even ottomans(young turks-Committee of Union and Progress ) were supporting them because they wanted to destroy power of local kurdish emirates. yes, once Hunchakian and Dashnaks were ally of young turks, your nation's slayer. because some is ray to right, other is ray to left but center is same. these group origin's is barbaric european racism and that racism shows no mercy to others in their nation's "natural habitat". even nazism is sourcing from same weld. when things going to bad they can easily ally to each others and they did it. nazis, remnant of young turks in balkan and those armenian group fought jointly in ww2. you can search for Drastamat Kanayan and his armenian legion in german army. kurds just tried to save their people from those bloodthirsty savages. 2- when things going to bad in our region everyone suffer from it. kurdish emirates could do some bad things too but at least their system worked. i don't know any armeanian or assyrian rebellions against kurds or turks in history before 19 century. you are more crowded than georgians and they fought with kurds and turks and sometime they won, sometime they defeated but they always have kept their homeland from outsider controllers. so you didn't success it and never tried it because your forefathers were loved to being slave and coward people? no, i think just they happy being under kurds' rule. but those emirate were vanished away by ottomans for centralism, and ottoman creates new loyal minions, hamidiye cavalry. emirates were legimate rulers so they got their power from justice but those regiments were not legimate so they got power from being ruthless. most kurds may like abdulhamid 2 because he gave some rights to kurds but noone like hamidiye regiments maybe just minority because they were cruel against kurds too. this terror time accused suffer for all local nations. and as a reality christian nations suffer too much from others because they were different so they had noone for help. this situtation make them cat's paw for european power. russians maked use od armenians for expand their hegomony and when when they needed to focus on their internal problems, they abondened you against angry kurds. because their homes, lands burned from armenian neighbours for great armenia. this 2 things: activity of hamidiye cavalry and furious kurds' vengaence reason of armenian massacre. first one is barbaric and other is tragic. 3- but if we talk about genocide; It is an organized act of hate. you are not in armenian highlands anymore and its reason is not massacres of kurds. some people in istanbul made a plan for erase you, collected you without separating the guilty from the innocent, and marched you to syrian desert for dead. kurds were not one from makers of plan, not one of bringers you to concentration camp or not one of forcers you to march. also it is against modern kurds' thought. because genocide is maked for erasing nations' name. kurds are not rejecting you were living in this land once. if who is the rejecter, that is the maker.

@forestmanzpedia Год назад

Hello Paul. Thank you so much for sharing your passion, love and interest about other languages showing and teaching us beautiful treasures of humanity.

@princessabdula5497 10 месяцев назад

❤❤❤❤❤ From the philipphines and lives in Armenia 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

@Armoterra Год назад

Impeccable video. You can tell you know what you’re talking about and you put in a lot of time and effort to research your videos. And plus, your pronunciation is exceptional for a non-native speaker.

@roza__kim8045 Год назад

Greetings from Armenia. Thanks for the video.

@subnormalbark2683 Год назад

You should do the Lakota language from North America, one of the biggest Native American languages

@anahityeghoian6724 Год назад

Wow. It's just brilliant. I'm from Armenia and I like this video so much. I'm always proud of my country and Armenian language. The only language to speak with God is Armenian...🇦🇲❤️

@danielantony1882 Год назад

Հա լավ, միքիչ շատ գլխիտ առար։ Միքիչ համեստությունը քեզ չի վնասի XD

@anahityeghoian6724 Год назад

Ինչ ես ջղաձգվում որ? Քեզ ինչ ես ինչ եմ գրում

@danielantony1882 Год назад

@Crudox Cruo Holy shit, it is? And Politicians aren't ruining it?

@danielantony1882 Год назад

@@anahityeghoian6724 Լավ, բան չեմ ասի էլ։

@monikasahakyan8047 Год назад

I am extremely happy to see this video!!! I swear, when I read the title of this video I got tears in my eyes a lil bit. Why? Because finally my beautiful language got the recognition it deserves! Paul, I’ve been watching you for a really long time and I always wondered if you’d ever make a video about my native language and now I’m beyond grateful for this video. Armenian is a unique language. It’s pretty difficult with its huge vocabulary, rich phonetics and complex grammar, but it’s very beautiful. I’m Eastern Armenian, but I love both dialects of Armenian, because both of them hold huge cultural and historical heritage. We’re one of the oldest nations, the first Christian nation, so we always kept our culture, religion and language even while being under influence of different empires for centuries! We survived genocide, but we’re still out here doing our thing. Anyways, thank you for this amazing video! Watching this I realized how difficult Armenian actually is haha! Answering your question, I should say that I understand Western Armenian pretty well. There might be specific words that I don’t get, but usually it’s understandable. But I wouldn’t say it’s mutually intelligible. For Western Armenians it’s harder to understand us. I also learned some Western Armenian vocab and grammar in high school as a subject and have western Armenian friends, so maybe having exposure to the dialect helped a lot. Also to everyone who’s trying to learn Armenian, first of all thank you for admiring our language and culture and then don’t give up and keep learning!! Sending love from Armenia, Yerevan!!!

@siratshi455 Год назад

I would love to visit Armenia someday, I heard many of my compatriots go there, but mainly to buy cars😁, I'm from Kazakhstan, God bless Armenia, its people and its language.

@zerleg2738 Год назад

🇰🇿💗

@GagikHarutyunyan_dev Год назад

Tank you

@siratshi455 Год назад

@@GagikHarutyunyan_dev praying for you guys after all this conflict has started, stay safe🙏

@edomin1148 Год назад

Thank you. We love Kazakistan.

@YALQUZAQ_AZ Год назад

Kazakhstan is just a Russian colony, nothing else

@VictorGabrielRS Год назад

Eu sempre fui fascinado pela lingua Armena

@atra4251 Год назад

Obrigado mano

@DigitalArbiter Год назад

As a Turk, I can easily see some similarities in word usage and word order. Our default word order is SOV, but we can also change this order to emphasize the subject or object. Also, the suffix -em reminds me of the dialect of Azerbaijani Turkish. So this analogy makes a lot of sense. I had the chance to visit the ancient settlements of Urartu in Van and also the ancient settlements of Ani in Kars. I wish lasting peace for all the people of Armenia and for our country and also for all other neighbors.

@pablito8568 Год назад

7:22 the word "Luys" in armenian sounds exactly same as "luz" in portuguese that i speak, from northeast of Brazil.

@qapra Год назад

It's also similar to Lux in Latin, very perceptive observation! They do share a common PEI etymology.

@melhiott7977 Год назад

yes! noticed that, too

@HAYAOLEONE Год назад

In French 'to shine' (sunlight/from sunlight) is 'LUIR'. And 'him' is 'LUI'. +

@austrian_painter1313 Год назад

And in Latin it's lux.

@vshlearning7230 Год назад

Lux Lucet In Tenebris

@2rick135 10 месяцев назад

Love yo my Armenian brothers and sisters form Marseille ❤️🇦🇲

@gevorsargsyan1477 Год назад

Love from ARMENIA🇦🇲💝💝💝💝💝

@globetrekker86 Год назад

Darn, now I have three seemingly insurmountable language learning curves ahead (Georgian, Western Armenian, Eastern Armenian)

@hyeeagle 19 дней назад

My grandparents are from western Armenia,my parents are born in Greece and moved to Armenia and I’m from eastern Armenia. I can speak and understand Western Armenian because my grandparents understand Eastern Armenian but only speak Western Armenian.

@Hayastantzi92 Год назад

You could've also mentioned the Homshetsi dialect, it's said to be the Original Armenian Language without any Loan Words

@lordronn472 Год назад

That’s not true at all!

@ericcholakians5315 Год назад

@@lordronn472 It is mostly true. Hamshenci Armenian is very archaic in nature, and is closer to ancient Armenian than any other dialect today. They have influence from Ottoman Turkish, but despite that they still hold onto many archaic words.