Station
identification: "Yeravan-e khosum" (pronounced
ho-sum) meaning "Yerevan speaking" The language of Armenia. Armenian is spoken by Armenians in Turkey and in settlements elsewhere in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
Armenian has been isolated for 1000 years from other languages of the Indo-European family.
Armenian (and Farsi ) usually have stressed endings and are full of rather long a and o vowel sounds.
Armenian has many harsh combinations of consonants and is particularly rich in sounds (such as f, h, th). Early forms of Armenian had much in common with Greek grammatically, but modern Armenian has absorbed grammatical influences from Turkish .
Station
identification: "Yeravan-e khosum" (pronounced
ho-sum) meaning "Yerevan speaking"
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Armenian | Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon | Indo-European (Armenian) | 4-5m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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