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Language code: arm

Technical information about ISO 639 language code arm

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The table below provides technical details for the Armenian language, designated by the arm code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

arm (Bibliographic)

Name

Official

Armenian

Native

Հայերեն

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Eastern ArmenianWestern Armenian
Related languages
None (Armenian forms its own independent branch of Indo-European)
Key facts
Armenian script with 39 letters was created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 CEthe earliest long text is a 5th-century Bible translation that helped fix literary normsClassical Armenian (Grabar) is still used in liturgy and scholarly worksthe language marks evidentiality through verb endings and particlesEastern and Western standards differ in phonology and spelling yet remain largely mutually intelligible.
Sample phrase

Բարև, ինչպես եք?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Armenian language, identified by the code arm, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Armenian language: arm for bibliographic purposes and hye for terminology uses.

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