Eastern Armenian
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Eastern Armenian (Armenian: Արևելահայերեն, romanized: Arevelahayeren) is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Western Armenian. The two standards form a pluricentric language.
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Eastern Armenian | |
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Արևելահայերեն | |
Native to | Armenia, Iran, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia |
Native speakers | 3.8 million (2013)[1] |
Indo-European
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Armenian alphabet (virtually always in the reformed orthography, except in Iran) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | hy |
ISO 639-2 | arm (B) hye (T) |
ISO 639-3 | hye |
Glottolog | nucl1235 |
Map of the Armenian dialects in early 20th century: -owm dialects, corresponding to Eastern Armenian, are shown in green. | |
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Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Russia, as well as Georgia, and by the Armenian community in Iran. Although the Eastern Armenian spoken by Armenians in Armenia and Iranian-Armenians are similar, there are pronunciation differences with different inflections.[2] Armenians from Iran also have some words that are unique to them. Due to migrations of speakers from Armenia and Iran to the Armenian diaspora, the dialect is now very prominent in countries and regions where only Western Armenian was used. Eastern Armenian is based on the Yerevan dialect.