Eastern Armenian

Eastern Armenian
Eastern Armenian
Արևելահայերեն
Native to	Armenia, Iran, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia
Native speakers	3.8 million (2013)
Language family	Indo-European Armenian Eastern Armenian; ;
Writing system	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 (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.

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.

^ Eastern Armenian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Dolatian H, Sharifzadeh A, Vaux B (2023). A grammar of Iranian Armenian: Parskahayeren or Iranahayeren (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8177018. ISBN 9783961104192.

[e25-1] Eastern Armenian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[Dolatian2023-2] Dolatian H, Sharifzadeh A, Vaux B (2023). A grammar of Iranian Armenian: Parskahayeren or Iranahayeren (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8177018. ISBN 9783961104192.

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