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7 unusual facts about Armenian language


Adamian

Adamian (Armenian: Ադամյան) is an Armenian surname, sometimes transliterated Adamyan, and derived from the given name Adam.

Anahit Manasyan

Anahit Manasyan (in Armenian Անահիտ Մանասյան) graduated from the Law Faculty of Yerevan State University gaining a Master's degree in Constitutional Law in 2010.

Anahit Nersesyan

Anahit Nersesyan (In Armenian: Անահիտ Ներսիսյան, по-русски: Анаит Нерсесян), a famous Armenian pianist was born in 1954 in Yerevan.

Bernard Coulie

Bernard Coulie (born 1959) is a Belgian academic specializing in Greek patristic literature primarily of Late Antiquity and its derivatives (hence an expertise in translation techniques) and counterparts in eastern Christian oriental languages of that period (notably Armenian, Syriac and Georgian).

Josh Pahigian

Pahigian has also written short stories that have been published in American literary journals such as Passages North, the Hawaii Review, and Ararat, and has been translated in several Armenian language periodicals and anthologies.

Naz Edwards

Naz Edwards (born Nazig Dombalagian (Armenian: Նազիգ Դոմբալագիան) on February 2, 1952) is an American voice actress, singer, and Broadway star who is most remembered as the voice of antagonist Queen Beryl in the DiC English version of Sailor Moon.

Robert W. Thomson

Thomson has translated into English several Old Armenian, Syriac and Greek texts as well as having written two textbooks on the Armenian language.


Alishan Bairamian

In 1969, he successfully defended his dissertation, written on the Sanjak of Alexandretta, in the Armenian language, in Yerevan, and was thus awarded a doctorate.

Armenakan Party

The Armenakan Party (in Armenian Արմենական Կուսակցութիւն) was established in Van in 1885 by Mekertich Portukalian as an underground organization against the ruling system.

Armenian neopaganism

Armenian Neopaganism, or Hetanism (Armenian: Հեթանոսություն Hetanosutyun; a cognate word of "Heathenism"), is a Neopagan religion of reconstructionist kind, constituting an ethnic religion of the Armenians.

Biblical manuscript

Parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.

Big World

The front cover of the album features the phrase "Big World" in French, Persian, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Thai, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Armenian, Hindi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Arabic, and Polish.

Demographics of Iran

There are small groups using other Indo-European languages such as Pashtun and Armenian; the isolate Dravidian language Brahui in the south-east; and Georgian (a member of the Kartvelian language family), spoken only by those Iranian Georgians that live in Fereydan and Fereydunshahr.

Euthalian Apparatus

James Marchand argued that the Euthalian apparatus probably dated to the first half of the 4th century, arguing that the original must precede its incorporation into Gothic, Armenian, and Syriac translations.

Georg Bühler

Bühler was born to Rev. Johann G. Bühler in Borstel, Hanover, attended high school in Hanover where he mastered Greek and Latin, then university as a student of theology and philosophy at Göttingen, where he studied classical philology, Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Armenian, and Arabic.

Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute

Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute (GSPI) named after M. Nalbandian (Armenian Մ. Նալբանդյանի Անվան Գյումրու Պետական Մանկավարժական Ինստիտուտ) is a public university located in Gyumri, Shirak Province, Armenia.

Hemaiag Bedros XVII Ghedighian

Hemaiag Bedros XVII Ghedighian (in Armenian Հմայեակ Պետրոս ԺԷ. Կետիկեան) (2 October 1905, in Partizak, Armenia – 28 November 1998, in Lebanon) was the Armenian Catholic Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia from July 1976 until May 1982, when he resigned because of legal age and was succeeded by Patriarch Hovhannes Bedros XVIII Kasparian.

James Clackson

His research interest include ancient Languages of the Italian peninsula (Latin, Sabellian, Etruscan), Indo-European linguistics, Latin linguistics, Greek linguistics and Armenian.

KVMD

Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, and Armenian and KVMD's owner, Ronald Ulloa, is also president and majority owner of KXLA.

Levon Pashalian

Levon Pashalian (in Armenian Լեւոն Բաշալեան) (born 1868 Constantinople, Ottoman Turkey - died 1943 Vichy, France), is a famed Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, novelist, and politician.

Matenadaran

The earliest mention of the term Matenadaran, which means "repository of manuscripts" in Armenian, was recorded in the writings of the fifth century A.D. historian Ghazar Parpetsi, who noted the existence of a repository at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral, where Greek and Armenian language texts were kept.

Names of Asian cities in different languages

also written as Erzerum or Erzeroum in some texts until the early 20th century, formerly known as Arzen during the Roman period, Theodosiopolis (after Theodosius I) during the Byzantine period and Karin (Կարին) in Armenian (hence Karnu-kalaki, კარნუ-ქალაქი, of the medieval Georgians)

Saint Sarkis Church of Tsovinar

The small church of Saint Sarkis (Armenian: Սուրբ Սարգիս եկեղեցի; pronounced Surp Sarkis) is located in the foothills south of Lake Sevan in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

Shahan Shahnour

Shahnour Kerestejian better known as Shahan Shahnour (in Armenian Շահան Շահնուր, French transliteration Chahan Chahnour) also known in his French language writings as Armen Lubin (in Armenian Արմեն Լյուբեն Western Armenian Արմէն Լիւպեն) (August 3, 1903, Istanbul - August 20, 1974, Saint-Raphaël) was a French-Armenian writer and poet.

Smbataberd

Smbataberd (Armenian: Սմբատաբերդ; meaning Fortress of Smbat the Prince of Syunik) is a fortress located upon the crest of a hill between the villages of Artabuynk and Yeghegis in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia.

The Yashmak

The Yashmak, A Story of the East is a musical play, with a libretto by Cecil Raleigh and Seymour Hicks, adapted from an Armenian operetta, Leblébidji Horhor, which had been a success in 1896 in Constantinople.

United Communist Party of Armenia

Renewed Communist Party of Armenia - (in Armenian: Հայաստանի նորացված կոմունիստական կուսակցություն Hayastani Noratsvats Komunistakan Kusaktsutyun) abbreviated HNKK, formed on May 25, 2002, by former Armenian Communist Party (HKK) leaders Yuri Manukian and Grant Voskanyan who had been expelled from HKK the previous year on the grounds that they had advocated cooperation with the government.

Zakaryan

Zakaryan (in Armenian Զաքարյան), also written Zakarian (in Western Armenian Զաքարեան) is an Armenian surname, originating from the patronymic Armenian equivalent of Zechariah.


see also

Armenian Mesrobian School

After its initial beginnings as a Saturday school in Montebello, in California, teaching the Armenian language and culture, Armenian Mesrobian School was founded in 1965.