Armenian Language - Classification and Origins

Classification and Origins

Main article: Proto-Armenian language See also: Armenian hypothesis

History of the Armenian language
see also: Armenian alphabet
Armenian hypothesis
Proto-Armenian
Old Armenian (from 405)
Middle Armenian (c. 1100 – 1700)
Modern Armenian (c. 1700 – present)

Indo-European topics
Indo-European languages (list)
Albanian Armenian Balto-Slavic Celtic Germanic Greek Indo-Iranian Italic Slavic Extinct Anatolian Tocharian Paleo-balkan languages
Proto-Indo-European language
Vocabulary Phonology Sound laws Ablaut Root Nominals Verbs
Indo-European language-speaking peoples
Europe Albanians Balts Celts Greeks Illyrians Italic peoples Germanic peoples Thracians Slavs Asia Anatolians Armenians Indo-Aryans Iranians Tocharians
Proto-Indo-Europeans
Homeland Society Religion
Indo-European archaeology
Abashevo culture Afanasevo culture Andronovo culture Baden culture Beaker culture Catacomb culture Cernavodă culture Chasséen culture Chernoles culture Colchian Corded Ware culture Cucuteni-Trypillian culture Dnieper-Donets culture Funnelbeaker culture Gumelniţa-Karanovo culture Gushi culture Hallstatt culture Karasuk culture Kemi Oba culture Khvalynsk culture Kura-Araxes culture Lusatian culture Kurgan Koban Leyla-Tepe culture Jar-Burial Jastorf culture Khojaly-Gadabay Maykop culture Middle Dnieper culture Narva culture Nordic Bronze Age Novotitorovka culture Poltavka culture Potapovka culture Samara culture Seroglazovo culture Shulaveri-Shomu Sredny Stog culture Srubna culture Terramare culture Trialeti Tumulus culture Unetice culture Urnfield culture Usatovo culture Vučedol culture Yamna culture
Indo-European studies

While the Armenians were known to history much earlier (for example, they were mentioned in the 6th century BC Behistun Inscription and Xenophon's 4th century BC history, The Anabasis), the oldest surviving Armenian language text is the 5th century AD Bible translation of Mesrob Mashtots.