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Armenian Language
anNadine Abo Laban
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Gap paper 2 (Armenian Language)

Introduction
The guest speaker who graced us with her presence was Alyssah Depoya, who is of Armenian origin. According to Alyssah, all pure Armenians last names end with “yan” which acts as an indicator of whether the person is of pure Armenian origin.
Armenia is a mountainous country located in the South Caucasus region in Eurasia. It is bordered by Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran (“Armenia”, n.d). Armenian people have a very rich and dense culture. It is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Armenia was also the very first country to embrace Christianity as its religion. The Armenian culture has been shaped and influenced by many other countries due to the several invasions that their people had to endure. It has been conquered by the Persians, Greeks, Mongols, Byzantines, Ottomans, Arabs, Romans and Russians. The most brutal invasion was when the Ottoman Turks took over Armenia, killing its people and leaving them to starve to death. During the Ottoman take over between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were killed, leaving this massacre to be the very first genocide of the 20th century. Moreover, Turkey denies such a massacre having occurred and claims till this present day that death casualties were a minimum.
Armenia houses a population of 3,140,000 citizens. However the total Armenian population is 5,924,320. They are wide spread over Azerbaijan, Canada, Egypt, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Palestine, Russia, united states and Syria (Lewis, 2013).
Facts about the language
According to my research from the Ethonologue and Wikipedia, there are 5,924,320 speakers of Armenian all over the world. The language belongs to the Indo-European language family and has several dialects. Most linguists identify the language as a separate branch under the indo European family. You can also call the Armenian language by Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili,

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