• Armenian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Armenia. Wittmann (1991) posits that ArSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language). Language...
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    Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
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    that language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands...
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    its population. Armenian is a pluricentric language with two modern standardized forms: Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian. Armenia's constitution does...
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    Armenian dram sign (֏, image: ; Armenian: Դրամ; code: AMD) is the currency sign of the Armenian dram. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+058F ֏ ARMENIAN DRAM...
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    likely a borrowing from earlier Armenian churches of the area. It can also be found on Armenian manuscripts. The eternity sign is used on the logos of government...
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  • Armenian Woman's Sign Language, also known as Caucasian Sign Language or Harsneren (Armenian: հարսներէն, "bride's language"), is an indigenous sign language...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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    developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around AD 405 by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ecclesiastical...
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    Isolate languages, such as Albanian Sign Language, Armenian Sign Language, Caucasian Sign Language, Spanish Sign Language (LSE), Turkish Sign Language (TİD)...
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    (in Armenian). Retrieved 2023-08-26. "ԳՕՍՏ 32945-2014". armstandard.am (in Armenian). "ԳՕՍՏ Ռ 52290-2004". armstandard.am (in Armenian). Armenian road...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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  • belong to the Armenian Apostolic faith and a minority of Armenians in Turkey belong to the Armenian Catholic Church or to the Armenian Evangelical Church...
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    number of users, after Levantine, MSA, and French. Most Armenians in Lebanon can speak Western Armenian, and some can speak Turkish. Lebanon exists in a state...
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  • Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...
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    partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in Russia. The first major wave of Armenian immigration...
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  • are various systems of romanization of the Armenian alphabet. In linguistic literature on Classical Armenian, the commonly used transliteration is that...
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    Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
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    of speakers of Armenian, Aromanian, Romanian, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz and Balkan Gagauz, Macedonian and English. Bulgarian Sign Language has an estimated...
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  • Deaf communities in Poland use Polish Sign Language, which belongs to the German family of Sign Languages. Languages other than Polish that have existed...
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    Neo-Aramaic (four dialects), Circassian, Chechen, Armenian, and finally Greek. None of these languages has official status. Historically, Aramaic was the...
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    The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling...
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    Αρμενία (Armenia), the Armenians are called Αρμένιοι (Armenii) and the Armenian language is called αρμένικα (Armenica). In the Armenian language, Greece...
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    Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, romanized: hayer, [hɑˈjɛɾ]) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia. Armenians constitute...
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    includes Russian in Siberia; Greek around the Black Sea; and Armenian; as well as extinct languages such as Hittite of Anatolia and Tocharian of (Chinese) Turkestan...
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    partially Armenian-speaking, has played a significant role in Armenian nationalism. The kingdom emerged in the mid-9th century BC and dominated the Armenian Highlands...
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    they maintain Armenian-language media and political parties. While most adhere to the Armenian Apostolic Church, there are also Armenian Protestants and...
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    000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
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    the first language of about 3,000 people of Armenian descent in the Republic. Armenian Cypriots are often bilingual in Greek and Armenian.: 507–509 ...
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