The language was spoken in historic Armenia for millennia. Over the 20th century Western Armenian, traditionally spoken in Turkey and in Europe, has suffered a sharp decline. Spoken by millions in 1900, it is now considered an “endangered language” according to the UNESCO classification.

Armenians have a very strong cultural connection to the Armenian Apostolic Church. About 97% of citizens belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Eastern Christian denomination in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches.

Actors

• Marie Rose Abousefian, actress.
• Kay Armen, TV, film and stage actress.
• Val Avery, actor.
• Richard Bakalyan, actor.
• Adrienne Barbeau, actress (mother was of Armenian descent)
• Rowan Blanchard, actress, paternal great-grandmother was an Armenian from present-day Syria.
• Eric Bogosian, playwright and performance artist.

Both being ancient civilizations, Armenians and Greeks have co-existed for centuries. There are ancient notes by Greek historians suggesting of the roots of Armenians. According to a hypothesis proposed by linguists during the 20th century, the Armenian and Greek languages share a common ancestor.

The Armenian word for “alphabet” is այբուբեն (aybuben), named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet: ⟨Ա⟩ Armenian: այբ ayb and ⟨ Բ⟩ Armenian: բեն ben….

Armenians in the Middle East are mostly concentrated in Iran, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, Jordan and Jerusalem, although well-established communities exist in Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and other countries of the area including, of course, Armenia itself.

Although it was probably patterned after the Pahlavi script, which was itself a descendant of the Aramaic alphabet, Armenian script shows distinct Greek influence by the presence of letters for vowels and in the direction of writing (from left to right).

The Cyrillic alphabet is closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek.

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Khmer

It is currently used exclusively or as one of several alphabets for more than 50 languages, notably Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Montenegrin (spoken in Montenegro; also called Serbian), Russian, Serbian, Tajik (a dialect of Persian), Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek.

In contemporary Russian, ⟨э⟩ is used to represent [e], [ɛ] in initial position (электричество ‘electricity’) and postvocalic position (дуэль ‘duel’).

Bosnian is written with both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Historically it was written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet known as Bosnian Cyrillic from the late 10th century. This alphabet was only used in Bosnia. Bosnian is closely related to and mutually intelligible with Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin.

Twenty-five years after the former Socialist Federalist Republic of Yugoslavia was split into Serbia (which later split again to form Montenegro in 2006), Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia, a group of linguists have declared that Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, and Montenegrin are all just versions of the same …

Bosnian

Islam

The name Herzegovina itself stems from the archaic Serbo-Croatian term borrowed from German, hercegovina, a land ruled by a Herzog (the German term for a duke) thus literally meaning ‘duchy’ or ‘dukedom’.

Bosnians (Serbo-Croatian: Bosanci / Босанци; singular masculine: Bosanac / Босанац, feminine: Bosanka / Босанка) are people identified with the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina or with the region of Bosnia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina