The ARMENIAN Language

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

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

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.

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. 🇦🇲❤

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

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😅❤

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.

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! 🇵🇱❤🇦🇲

Love and support from Armenia from Europe, Romania!

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.

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

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.

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!!

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!

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! 🇲🇽❤️🇦🇲

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

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!

What an amazing breakdown of the Armenian language.

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