From "Armenia Flag, Armenian Coat of Arms- Republic of Armenia"
The flag and coat of arms of the present Republic of Armenia are those adopted by the first Armenian republic in 1918-1920. The coat of arms was designed by member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Architect Alexander Tamanian (creator of Yerevan's city plan) and artist Hakob Kojoyan.
Follow this link to Armenica.org for an interactive description of the meaning of colors and symbols in the Armenian flag and coat of arms.
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History
Although the exact origins of Armenian language are unknown, Armenian may have reached modern-day Armenia in the 2nd millenium BC when invaders from the Balkans and Pontic area overthrew the Urartian Kingdom in Eastern Anatolia.
Armenian language remains distinct even within the Indo-European family due in part to physical location and the language being surrounded by non Indo-European languages.
Linguistic Affiliation
Armenian is an Indo-European language in Armenia, Georgia, and various countries in the Middle East. Modern Standard Armenian has two major forms: Eastern, spoken in the former Soviet Union, and Western, spoken by diasporic communities throughout the Middle East.
Language Variation
The two main variations of modern Armenian language, Eastern and Western Armenian, share common vocabularies but feature major differences in grammar and pronunciation. Eastern Armenian has a complicated system of dialects. For example, Garibian has over fifty sub-dialects which are sub-divided by the method used to form the present tense. These groups number seven in total. The classical language, still used in liturgical settings, was codified in the early 5th century by Mesrop Mashtots. Classical Armenian, also known as grabar, was used as a general written language up until the nineteenth century.
Orthography
Armenian language was first written with 36 letters (now 38) and was based partially on the Greek alphabet. Grabar During the 7th-11th centuries, a written dialect known as middle Armenian also began to appear. By the 19th century, the difference between spoken and written language was so great that the movement to create a modern standard written register gained traction. Kachatur Abovian and Ghevond Alishan were instrumental in these efforts. Both Eastern and Western Armenian unwent movements to remove loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish from the Armenian language to be replaced with those from Grabar.
Linguistic Sketch
Eastern and Western Armenian share many common vocabularies, but have noticable grammatical and phonological differences. Modern Armenian nouns ______________
Source: University of Duisburg-Essen and Compendium of the World's Languages 2nd ed. by George L. Campbell
Also see this brief overview of the Armenian Language
Having once hosted over 7,000 Armenian language books and 2 million pages of Armenian periodicals, the National Library of Armenia unfortunately suffered damage to its servers in 2020 and many collections are no longer online. While the Armenian digital archives rebuild, check the links below to find some historical materials in the Armenian language.