Eastern Armenian

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Eastern Armenian is the standardized modern variety of the Armenian language primarily used in Armenia and among many Armenian communities in the former Soviet Union.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Armenian canonical 9
Modern Armenian 2
Modern Eastern Armenian 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language standard
modern variety of Armenian
standardized language variety
alsoWrittenWith classical Armenian orthography
closelyRelatedTo Western Armenian
developedFrom Classical Armenian (Grabar)
linked to: Classical Armenian
hasAlternativeName Arewelian Hayeren
Ashkharhabar (in some contexts)
hasGrammaticalCategory grammatical gender absent
hasMorphologyDistinctFrom Western Armenian
hasPhonologyDistinctFrom Western Armenian
hasPronunciationFeature three-way stop consonant distinction
hasStandardBasedOn Yerevan dialect
linked to: Eastern Armenian
hasSyntaxDistinctFrom Western Armenian
hasWritingDirection left-to-right
historicallyDerivedFrom Middle Armenian
ISO639-1Code hy
ISO639-3Code hye
languageBranch Armenian
languageFamily Indo-European
mutuallyIntelligibleToHighDegreeWith Western Armenian
officialLanguageOf Republic of Armenia
linked to: Armenia

Republic of Artsakh
partOf Armenian language
primaryWritingSystem reformed Armenian orthography
regulatedBy Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Armenia
standardFormOf spoken Armenian in Armenia
written Armenian in Armenia
standardizedIn Republic of Armenia
linked to: Armenia
subdivisionOf Armenian languages
Indo-European languages
usedBy Armenian diaspora communities in Eastern Europe
Armenian diaspora communities in Russia
Armenian diaspora communities in the Caucasus
Armenians in the former Soviet Union
usedIn Armenia
Central Asia
Georgia
Iran
Nagorno-Karabakh region
Russia
Ukraine
usedInDomain education in Armenia
government in Armenia
literature in Armenia
media in Armenia
usesCaseSystem seven grammatical cases (in the noun system)
writingSystem Armenian alphabet

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Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Armenian language hasPart Eastern Armenian
Armenian language hasStandardForm Standard Eastern Armenian
linked to: Eastern Armenian
Western Armenian standardizedAlongside Eastern Armenian
Western Armenian closelyRelatedTo Eastern Armenian
Eastern Armenian hasStandardBasedOn Yerevan dialect
linked to: Eastern Armenian
Grabar influenced Modern Eastern Armenian
linked to: Eastern Armenian
Proto-Armenian developedInto Eastern Armenian
Proto-Armenian hasDescendant Eastern Armenian
Middle Armenian developedInto Modern Eastern Armenian
linked to: Eastern Armenian
Middle Armenian hasDescendant Modern Armenian
linked to: Eastern Armenian
Iranian Armenian Americans languageUsed Eastern Armenian
Armeno-Tat shiftedTo Eastern Armenian
Armeno-Tat phonologicalInfluenceFrom Eastern Armenian
Armenian Seminary languageOfInstruction Modern Armenian
linked to: Eastern Armenian