hy
Technical information about ISO 639 language code hy
The table below provides technical details for the Armenian language, designated by the hy
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Armenian belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is the official language of Armenia and is also used by Armenian communities in neighboring countries such as Cyprus, Iraq, and Turkey. It is written using the Armenian alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 5.3 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
3.2M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Armenian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
hy-AM
– Armenian (Armenia)
Previous: Language Code List
Read next: Language Plural Rules
Tired of manually editing translation files?
Our platform streamlines software localization for you.