Status of Armenian
The Article 12 of the Constitution of Armenia states that "The state language of the Republic of Armenia is Armenian".
Armenian is a major language used in education, administration and public life. Armenian belongs to an independent branch of the Indo-European language family and uses a unique 39-letter alphabet invented in the 5th century.
Armenia has been the most successful of the three South Caucasian states (others being Azerbaijan and Georgia) in linguistic derussification after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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