The ARMENIAN Language

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[@MultiSuperfluous]

Keep up your informative videos

[@spitfire2885]

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]

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

[@Neo-Reloaded]

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

[@nicolausteslaus]

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

[@C2188ds]

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

[@Leonardo-se4su]

Shat lav, apres !

[@armankamal332]

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

[@squarzthebest]

stay away from Turkey

[@pepejimenez9295]

Thanks iran for protecting Armenians against turks

[@razvardan]

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

[@GuyHeadbanger]

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]

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]

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

[@koksalceylan9032]

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

[@GuyHeadbanger]

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

[@gavinpanjar5559]

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

[@squatresident]

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]

Too small,not worth considered as a tourist spot.

[@squatresident]

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

[@sarellehayek5030]

Your loss

[@meeeeeeeeeeee]

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]

@@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.

[@dekenlst]

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

[@YALQUZAQ_AZ]

Yeah very amazing people 🤣🤣🤣

[@bluepeng8895]

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

[@armennavoyan4665]

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ AZERBARANSTAN ARE YOU HERE 🤣🤣🤣

[@alexandro_lux]

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.

[@iloveyoushima]

@@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?

[@AntoniuDraculea]

Love and support from Armenia from Europe, Romania!

[@Thatboymeher]

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 🥹🇦🇲❤🇷🇴

[@pepejimenez9295]

Orthodox Brothers ☦️

[@Sporkonafork1]

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

[@davit244]

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!!

[@Nabium]

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]

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

[@Nabium]

@@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]

@@Nabium haha, right back at you fam

[@Nabium]

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

[@SJ-ym4yt]

@@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

[@jurekfryczkowski6674]

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]

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

[@jurekfryczkowski6674]

@@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]

@@jurekfryczkowski6674 wow!

[@rubeng160]

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]

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.

[@mett_2004]

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😅❤

[@КристинаАйрапетян-р9л]

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

[@samleroy2964]

Грамматика? В армянском кажется есть просто заимствования из персидского

[@maskaliki]

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

[@Տարոն-հ4ֆ]

​@@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).

[@Տարոն-հ4ֆ]

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

[@alishakhadka4618]

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

[@karen_galstyan3367]

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

[@suren2313]

Thanks beautiful

[@ramachandranpillai7582]

Hi

[@FokoPoko991]

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]

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

[@CilicianElite]

What an amazing breakdown of the Armenian language.

[@madlentutelian3612]

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]

Can you somewhat understand persian?

[@alekszadorian4126]

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]

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]

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

[@chraman169]

@@madlentutelian3612 thank you

[@BilalAli-qn7gh]

The biggest church in Baghdad is the Armenian Orthodox Church!

[@alancantu2557]

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]

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

[@LiluAmi]

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

[@MsMimo07]

@@sprc155 wut

[@sprc155]

@@MsMimo07 in your butt 😂

[@jamesthomashtunkyaw5682]

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

[@andrewdunbar828]

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...)

[@kaloarepo288]

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]

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

[@manvelmsurian9712]

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]

The monastery at San Lazarro.

[@Kristina-cp1wj]

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

[@diomuda7903]

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 KZbin and I am very pleased to hear. It's exotic and magical.

[@sargis_02]

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

[@sonashahinyan2717]

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

[@GreenApple1964]

I hope you will visit Armenia again

[@costernocht]

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

[@uloyan]

Listen to Komitas. You will love him too. He was a monk- surviver of genocide. Genious of Armenian music. We have secret music writing called "Xazer" where monks coded their music so when conquerors came to destroy our churches they couldn't get the music also. He was the only one who was able to decode it centuries after.

[@jeffmorse645]

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!

[@neweshtar]

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

[@kingmike7965]

Long live Parskastan and Hayastan 🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷

[@narkhachatryan8152]

🇦🇲❤🇮🇷

[@YALQUZAQ_AZ]

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

[@cyrusmokhtarinia499]

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

[@YALQUZAQ_AZ]

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

[@renespecht5279]

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]

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...

[@fartz3808]

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]

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]

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

[@renespecht5279]

@@fartz3808 , yeah, and the landscapes are stunning

[@1234smileface]

Armenian sounds beautiful. Greetings from Ireland.

[@usuario9870]

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

[@babyr4836]

Its REAL INTRESTING

[@merodaxue]

@@Jake-hi9hq get your two towers back again

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

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

[@edsondocarmo3065]

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

[@Jake-hi9hq]

@@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 🤣

[@arvantsaraihan5777]

16:50 that Armenian calque of the word logic, "tramabanut'yun" have such a beautiful roots of meaning, and it roughly means "solid words".

[@mikhailkarapetyants7066]

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]

im half armenian too

[@BangFarang1]

Great grand-father.

[@haygij]

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]

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

[@Marvelhint]

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

[@Jason-cu2tz]

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

[@ARMENIAN_EAGLE22]

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

[@Jason-cu2tz]

@@ARMENIAN_EAGLE22 hi buddy, well done

[@basharalhashimi6187]

What do jam, appricot, milk, orange juice and diamond called in albanian???​@@ARMENIAN_EAGLE22

[@englishwithphil42]

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.

[@blotzkrog]

love to my Armenian brothers and sisters from Iran💖

[@harmony5807]

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]

Bakı,Təbriz, Ankara biz hara farslar hara

[@YALQUZAQ_AZ]

Soon we will liberate South Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

[@YALQUZAQ_AZ]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος was the water cold?

[@haykvardanyan6349]

@@harmony5807 our bond?? what bond

[@Dani2kGaming_GEIR]

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]

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

[@Dani2kGaming_GEIR]

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

[@Kurdo_Barznji_Slemani]

@@Dani2kGaming_GEIR 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]

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

[@VM-ee5hc]

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

[@thelazywanderer_jt]

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]

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

[@noway6379]

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

[@qapra]

@@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]

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

[@Biospark88]

@@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

[@ancraiteee7319]

Respect to my armenian brothers from Greece🇬🇷

[@armennavoyan4665]

👍👍👍Greece and Armenia 👍👍👍

[@GeorgeFiladelfiotis]

Yekhpayrer!!!!

[@YALQUZAQ_AZ]

One nation two states 🇦🇿🇹🇷🤘🏻🐺

[@vickyk1861]

@@YALQUZAQ_AZ Turkish troll detected Langfocus please remove bloodthirsty spammers

[@EllinikiDimokratia]

@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.

[@Biospark88]

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.

[@GeorgeFiladelfiotis]

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

[@shapedcreature]

same here!!

[@mcmerry2846]

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

[@seid3366]

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

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

Still your people be proud

[@qapra]

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]

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

[@TeamSlow]

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

[@chraman169]

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

[@shroomcraftgames]

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]

@@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 :)

[@Son_of_aesthetics]

I am an Iranian in love with anything about Armenia,much love to y'all

[@Milamila-fn7vg]

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

[@elmirhatamli7240]

Uzum ek xosel?

[@tyelejames4103]

You could save the world, use it!

[@mishthay5756]

@@elmirhatamli7240 duq vortexiceq?

[@elmirhatamli7240]

@@mishthay5756 aşxariç)

[@mishthay5756]

@@elmirhatamli7240 duq hemşenci eq)?

[@Rithymna]

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

[@roza__kim8045]

Greetings from Armenia. Thanks for the video.

[@avinavar4818]

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! ❤️ 🇲🇽 🇦🇲

[@luishernandezblonde]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@alancantu2557 Dream on

[@davidbowie5023]

@@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]

@@alancantu2557 What Armenian is occupied by Turkey now?

[@mravalik]

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]

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

[@carlosmagalhaes7109]

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

[@danielantony1882]

@@carlosmagalhaes7109 It _is_ Armenian.

[@danielantony1882]

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]

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

[@schifoso5591]

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

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

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

[@baldarianagrande]

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]

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

[@tomrogue13]

And the Slavic family as well

[@ferretyluv]

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

[@ryenick28]

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

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

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]

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

[@mutantboy1948]

@@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]

@@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. 😉

[@Armoterra]

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.

[@C_B_Hubbs]

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]

Was she a baddie?

[@irreligiousman3395]

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]

@@irreligiousman3395 Is it a sample of Turkish humour?

[@chinares]

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

[@qwerasdf3420]

@@ierof1 sample of hard facts

[@Albanian.12]

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]

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

[@gizemliarkadas5233]

44 days

[@gtc239]

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

[@Dikranovski]

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

[@HosseinNouri]

@Yass BA svage turco-mongoloid invasion of Artsakh.

[@johan_johansson_]

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

[@holyarmor578]

Arme iska är otroligt intressant och Armenien är väldigt historiskt.

[@mikhailkadatov7925]

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]

@@mikhailkadatov7925 Very interesting indeed!

[@anchorofthenightsky]

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]

Glad to hear that, appreciate it. Thank you❤

[@Maya-ii1hl]

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

[@LiorSultanov]

Cəfəngiyyət

[@LiorSultanov]

Çirkindir. Düşmənin dili. Eşidəndə çəkdiyimiz əzab yadıma düşür.

[@adsoyad8971]

Sən Azərbaycanlı deyilsən. Osdurağa basma da. 😂😂😂

[@bubbajenkins123]

I want to be Armenian when I grow up

[@Langfocus]

lol

[@vshlearning7230]

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

[@gladysderhovanesian2187]

@@vshlearning7230 😂😂😂

[@Wacker1245]

Lol

[@amberlewis5003]

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

[@forestmanzpedia]

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

[@alecsimoni5876]

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)!

[@wankawanka3053]

🇬🇷💙🇦🇲 one of the best and most interesting languages

[@pietranera22]

Επιβεβαιώνω. Greece/Armenia brotherhood!

[@smendes2004]

There are no best or more interesting languages. All are all that.

[@pietranera22]

@@smendes2004 That is your opinion. Speak about yourself.

[@silvestrenet]

@@pietranera22 She's right, no offense.

[@pietranera22]

@@silvestrenet What? How dare you?(just kitting)😃

[@Mendiar88]

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]

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

[@seid3366]

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

[@Mendiar88]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@Imita0903]

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

[@viol2986]

omg me too,

[@Hayastantzi92]

same, always commented to do Հայերեն

[@drivemecrazy125]

100% same here

[@basharalhashimi2680]

@@Hayastantzi92 what do you mean???

[@x_Arone_x]

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

[@user-sg3wc6ov6g]

Theresa much a sourses fo It🙄

[@x_Arone_x]

@@user-sg3wc6ov6g nice 🙄

[@artasheskeshishyan4281]

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.

[@Kronos_2403]

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

[@fuatkaray9694]

@@Kronos_2403 Var türkçede burnundan getirmek diye bir ifade(deyim). Mesela"Bir iş yapalım dedim burnumdan getirdin."

[@tonijon4465]

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

[@nonosh]

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։ 🖖

[@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129]

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.

[@КристинаАйрапетян-р9л]

Так же только два и три звучат по другому.

[@404_Nut_Found]

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

[@armena8199]

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]

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]

@@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."

[@danielantony1882]

This is honestly the best way you could break down Armenian. Լուռջ եմ ասում ՝շատ լավա բացատրում։

[@Տարոն-հ4ֆ]

լուրջ* լավ ա*

[@danielantony1882]

@@Տարոն-հ4ֆ Պետք չի ինձ ուղղես, հարազատ։ Ես հայ եմ։ Ինադու եմ տենց գրել։

[@danielantony1882]

@@Տարոն-հ4ֆ Ր-ով Լուրջը ֆոռմալ վեռսիանա։

[@Տարոն-հ4ֆ]

@@danielantony1882 Ոչ մի վատ բան ի նկատի չունեի

[@danielantony1882]

@@Տարոն-հ4ֆ Ամեն ինչ նորմալ ա։ Առխաին։

[@cestmoidelavie]

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

[@КристинаАйрапетян-р9л]

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]

Sen Türkmüsün?!

[@holyarmor578]

@@mehebbetmireliyev1245 cry azergayjani 😭 🐐💨🇦🇿

[@mehebbetmireliyev1245]

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

[@cato9105]

@@mehebbetmireliyev1245 Anatolians not real Turks

[@arminek.1310]

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!

[@Vollzer]

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

[@mazyarkhanlar8134]

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

[@Vollzer]

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

[@RTAvakian]

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

[@mazyarkhanlar8134]

@@RTAvakian Turks did wrong to them

[@RTAvakian]

@@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.

[@HosseinNouri]

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]

@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]

Iran help save Armenia and Artsakh! 💪🏽

[@profilepicture828]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος thats tajikistan

[@HosseinNouri]

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

[@HosseinNouri]

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

[@annadavidiants4822]

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]

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

[@soumire]

Անչափ շնորհակալություն - many thanks from eastern armenian native speaker 🇦🇲 🇦🇲 🇦🇲

[@saraabraham9963]

Love to Armenia from USA.

[@mikej.chrisoulakis8250]

Shat lav... Greetings from Greece

[@monikasahakyan8047]

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!!!

[@cht5086]

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]

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]

🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷

[@jaykaufman9782]

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."

[@XVYQ_EY]

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

[@Romulan64]

What about Greek and Albanian? 😝

[@XVYQ_EY]

@@Romulan64 Greek: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXqlZoaBfJihpZI Albanian: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6G2fXp9Z7iqidk

[@John_Weiss]

"Subfamily" would be a better word for it.

[@funfoxvlad7309]

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

[@basedbartholomew3968]

@@funfoxvlad7309 tsakonian

[@Տարոն-հ4ֆ]

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]

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]

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.

[@voaniopalm3209]

Mich love and respect to the ancient people of Hayastan/Armenia from Indonesia!!! 🇮🇩🇦🇲🇮🇩🇦🇲

[@hoangnguyentrinhan-k15fpt26]

Respect Armenians people in Vietnam. Armenians people were massa*re by Turkish and Azeris, but Armenians culture; people and language still exist!!!

[@lucasherissontrindade9888]

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

[@annagrigoryan4909]

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 KZbin. A big thank you to all kind comments and for appreciating the beauty of our language! ❤️💙🧡

[@irinkaaachow]

Really surprised to see my native language here^^ thanks for the video!!

[@Shunshnura]

Ես շատ ուրախ եմ այս պոստի համար, չեմ համբերում նայել այն, բարեմաղթանքներս քեզ (Արևելյան) Հայերեն սովորողից ^^ As I've been learning (Eastern) Armenian for some time now, this is a very pleasant surprise. I remember after watching your Nahuatl video, a language that I also have a deep fascination with, I was really hoping I'd get to see a video of yours on Armenian. Well looks like my wish has been fulfilled! Very excited to watch this, maybe I'll even learn something new :D

[@Mad2thingie2232]

Hello I am trying to find online classes of both western and eastern armenian. I am from argentina and i am sympathetic to all armenians, and his language and people

[@larsw8776]

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.

[@CookieFonster]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@John_Weiss]

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.

[@anahityeghoian6724]

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]

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

[@anahityeghoian6724]

Ինչ ես ջղաձգվում որ? Քեզ ինչ ես ինչ եմ գրում

[@danielantony1882]

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

[@danielantony1882]

@@anahityeghoian6724 Լավ, բան չեմ ասի էլ։

[@alifenterprise7441]

I am speaking from Bangladesh. Armenia is my favorite country

[@subnormalbark2683]

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

[@ryenick28]

Nice insight regarding Armenian language.

[@minniesaab7255]

Great video ! I'm always more than impressed with your knowledge!

[@Langfocus]

I'm glad you like the video! It's not my knowledge that's impressive though. I always look into each language I make a video about and gather information. I don't have intimate knowledge of Armenian, I have just developed the skill of condensing and organizing information about such topics. If people are impressed with my *videos*, I'm happy.

[@s.l.l4506]

Love our Armenian brothers from 🇮🇷❤️🇦🇲

[@Byzantine_empire]

🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷

[@gregorymoore7617]

So excited to watch this!

[@arifyanar8348]

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]

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

[@aelarisa983]

Biji Kurd u Kurdistan. Greetings from Greece.

[@arifyanar8348]

@@aelarisa983 ✌️♥️♥️

[@parseghi]

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

[@arifyanar8348]

@@parseghi ✌️💛♥️💚

[@dimasveliz6745]

Armenian is a really beautiful language! It is relatively easy to study. The grammar isn't super complicated. I love how it sounds and many songs ! 🇨🇺❤🇦🇲

[@sofitocyn100]

Is it really easy? Never heard that before

[@dimasveliz6745]

@@sofitocyn100 I could get to have a decent conversational level fairly quick. Armenian is a very regular language and that helps a lot. Not too many exceptions and its features are also common in other languages. Possibly the hardest thing is just reading the script and the vocabulary as you cannot bring almost any word from other Indo-European language.

[@osasunaitor]

True, as a speaker of several Indo-European languages, the Armenian grammar explained here looked familiar and pretty straightforward to me, probably not a big deal to learn. The script is a simple phonetic alphabet like Latin, so also not a problem, just need some practice to get used to it. The vocabulary though, that's the huge challenge here!!

[@bjan999]

@@dimasveliz6745 I can't speak or understand Armenian, but I have learned to read it ... 😃

[@zabelaghazaryan8469]

@@bjan999respekt

[@magodiablo]

Daaamn Paul. Well done. I am a Speaker of one of the Eastern dialects. Even some eastern dialects can be challenging (Karabakh dialects). There are so many of eastern and western dialects that I can not possibly have been hearing all of them to form an opinion . But usually western dialects are a bit more challenging. Biggest challenges in my opinion are not pronunciation or words that we do not recognize, but words that have opposite meanings. Example" ձքել (dzkel) means "to drop" in Western Armenian dialects and "to pull" in Eastern Armenian dialects. 😄 that can cause casualties if you think about construction workers form the two regions working together.

[@curtpiazza1688]

Fascinating glimpse into a fascinating language and culture!

[@Iamtheliquor]

Im in my late 40’s. Only things I was any good at in school were French and German. Even my English results were lacking even though I’m British and Its my mother tongue. Thanks to Paul and this channel, I am now a fully fledged language and accent geek🤘 Love it

[@darthvader9665]

As a kurdish person i love our armenian brothers

[@darthvader9665]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος they are the liked cousins

[@darthvader9665]

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

[@darthvader9665]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@Maitreya-7777]

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"

[@ericBorja520]

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

[@devilangel4655]

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]

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

[@egbront1506]

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

[@jurekfryczkowski6674]

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

[@Nostalgia-pc6hb]

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

[@SmokeyB83]

OMG! Thank you! I am an Armenian American who was born in Syria. I moved to southern California when I was 2 years old and have been living here ever since. I was fortunate enough to have gone to an Armenian School up until my junior year of High School where Armenian language and Armenian History classes were part of the required curriculum. I also got to spend every Summer of my childhood (until 9/11), visiting my huge family in Aleppo, Syria. Now, as a 40-year-old guy, working all types of random "no college" jobs from selling suits at Macy's to grooming and training dogs at an animal rescue, I can confidently still read and write in Armenian, and I can speak a little bit of Arabic. Your amazing video helped me be a better Armenian and I am truly grateful for that.

[@КристинаАйрапетян-р9л]

Брат, жму руки, я родилась в СССР в Баку. знаю диалект армянского, который очень простой из Нагорного Карабаха

[@JohnDoe-oo9ll]

I end up rewatching these so many times, lol. There are so many Armenians in LA and Glendale California! I’ve become interested in learning more again.