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Language code: hye

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hye

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

Code

hye (Terminology)

Name

Official

Armenian

Native

Հայերեն

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Eastern ArmenianWestern Armenian
Key facts
The unique Armenian alphabet was devised by Mesrop Mashtots in the early 5th centuryArmenian retains aspirated stops like pʰ, tʰ and kʰ that many Indo-European languages lostThe language has seven noun cases and typically uses postpositions instead of prepositionsClassical Armenian (Grabar) is still employed in the liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic ChurchArmenian vocabulary contains extensive loanwords from Persian, Greek, Russian and French
Sample phrase

Բարեւ, ինչպես եք?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Armenian language, identified by the code hye, 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: hye for terminology purposes and arm for bibliographic uses.

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