Series Introduction

Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum

Armenian is the state language of exactly exactly what in current memory was the republic that is smallest of this previous Soviet Union, now the southernmost republic of this Commonwealth of Independent States. The language is talked by xpress around four million individuals nevertheless residing in the boundaries for the republic. a little set of speakers reside in north-western Iran, plus some communities dot the countryside of eastern Turkey. Many emigrees have actually spread the language to all the corners regarding the globe. The first documentary evidence of this Armenians is just a sixth century b.c. inscription in Behistun by the Persian master Darius we. It had been almost one thousand years, nevertheless, ahead of the Armenians on their own started to place their language to composing, when in 406 or 407 A.D. (далее…)