Children's Books Little Prince, The - Armenian Regular Price $44.95 Buy Info The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Equally loved by children and adults alike, The Little Prince is one of the most translated books on the planet - which is fortunate, as we are able to offer here editions in many languages for your...	Dictionary Hippocrene Armenian - Armenian/English Concise Dictionary Regular Price $14.95 Buy Info Diana and Susanna Aroutunian Over 9,000 entries. Phonetics for both languages. Concise, easy-to-use format. Parts of speech indicated. The only Eastern-Armenian dictionary on the market. 378 pages 4 x 6 paperback W 10,000 entries...	Handheld Dictionary EAr800 - English <-> Armenian Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook Regular Price $500.00 Buy Info Audio PhraseBook EAr800 is a powerful bilingual travel companion. One of the most impressive language management handhelds available anywhere, it is the clear leader in the field of portable translation devices. With its state-of-the-art voice...
Keyboard Stickers Keyboard Stickers for Armenian Special Price $13.95 Regular Price $15.00 Buy Info The Armenian language keytop overlays are available in blue letters on clear stickers (for standard keyboards) or white letters on clear stickers (for black keyboards and laptops). The overlay set includes the stickers necessary to create...	Kids Orange for Everybody (Paperback) - Armenian Regular Price $12.95 Buy Info Jimmy learns that sharing oranges with his family and friends can have a surprising reward....	Learn Pimsleur Eastern Armenian Compact Course Special Price $89.95 Regular Price $95.00 Buy Info The objective of the "Pimsleur" tape courses is to provide three levels of portable, spoken foreign language communication skills training within the Intermediate ACTFL requirements.
Movies/Videos Shalom Sesame, Jerusalem Regular Price $34.95 Buy Info Jerusalem. Experience the golden beauty of Israel's City of Peace as Itzhak Perlman, Bonnie Franklin and their young Israeli friends take you on a tour of Jerusalem from the Old City to the holy places of the Christian, Moslem, Armenian and...	Software - Windows GlobalOffice Special Price $289.95 Regular Price $300.00 Buy Info Start typing a world of different languages quickly and easily in Microsoft Office. The Global Office is an enhancement to Microsoft Office 97 that adds text entry and visual keyboard display.	Spell Checking Universal Word Euro, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek Regular Price $299.95 Buy Info The Universal Word is the Multi Lingual Solution for word processing. It supports over 165 languages and has spell checkers available for most of European languages. Unicode support is also included!
Word Processing Universal Word 2000 ML7 - Euro,Arab,Heb,Cyr,Indn& Asian Regular Price $369.95 Buy Info The Universal Word is the Multi Lingual Solution for word processing. It supports over 165 languages and has spell checkers available for most of European languages. Unicode support is also included! The new Universal Word 2000...

Products  Introduction  Writing Sample  Translation  Sound Samples 

Products

Introduction

Armenian is the native language of Armenia, a landlocked country in Transcaucasia bordering Turkey and Iran. It is spoken by the vast majority of the population, or close to 3½ million people. There are also about 2000,000 speakers in neighboring Georgia and sizable communities in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the United States.

The Armenians are an ancient people whose history dates back about 2,500 years. The Armenian alphabet was invented by Mesrop Mashtots, a missionary, about the year 400 A.D. Originally it consisted of thirty-six letters, six vowels and thirty consonants, to which two letters were added in the 12th century.

Armenian constitutes a separate and independent branch of the Indo-European family. The Armenians call their country Hayastan and their language Hayaren. During many centuries of Persian domination so many Iranian words entered the language that even in the 19th century many linguists thought it a dialect of Persian. It was not until 1875 that it was established as an independent language. Much of the Armenian vocabulary is not to be found in any other Indo-European language. Undoubtedly many words were derived from languages that are now extinct.

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, United States of America.

Family: Indo-European

Writing Sample

Translation

Oh to walk my way with kindness,
And not betray my life to a cloud of suspicions_
How I wish that someone would believe me,
How I wish that I could believe someone.

To triumph in an unequal battle,
To embrace with love both small and big,
How I wish that someone would beIieve me,
How I wish that I could believe someone.

Let the silence burst forth with fury,
And the eternal noise die down for good .
. How I wish that someone would believe me,
How I wish that I could believe someone.

HAMO SAHYAN

Sound Samples

Pimsleur Course-Armenian (Western) Compact (10 lesson) Cassette