Languages Of Armenia
Armenia is an ethnically homogeneous country, where Armenian is the official language and is spoken as a first language by the overwhelming majority of its population.
During the seventy-year Soviet era (1920-1991), the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and the neighboring Georgian SSR and Azeri SSR were the only republics where the so-called titular language had official status along with Russian. As of today, Russian is still, by far, the best known foreign language among the Armenian population. English is gaining popularity in recent years. French and several other languages also start to be studied and used as well. Kurdish is the largest minority language of Armenia spoken by the Yazidi minority. Other minority languages recognized by the Armenian government are Assyrian, Greek and Russian.
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