Translations and other language solutions in Armenian

Armenian is one of the languages of the Indo-European family which nowadays is used by 8 million people in the world. The Armenian language is the national language in Armenia and in Nagorno-Karabakh. In addition, part of the Armenian diaspora in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Cyprus and elsewhere calls Armenian their mother tongue. Until 1990, education in Armenian schools was in Armenian and Russian, but after the fall of the USSR, the Armenian language became the main language for education and all other schools that had studies in Russian were shut down. In 2010, education in the Russian language was reinstated. Historically there are few remaining facts about the dawn of the Armenian language, but there are facts that date back to the 6th century B.C. The written form of Armenian first appeared in the 5th century when the Armenian alphabet was created. Traditionally there are three Armenian language development periods: the ancient Armenian written language development period from the 5th to the 11th century, which was followed by the middle Armenian language development period from the 12th to the 16th centuries, and the present-day Armenian language period since the 17th century. There are two generally accepted forms of Armenian: east and west. East Armenian has developed on the basis of the Ararat Plain dialect and is spoken in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Georgia and Iran. The west Armenian language has developed on the basis of Constantinople and the Crimean dialect and is spoken by the Armenian diaspora. This language is also used in education and in media. In Armenian, the stress usually is on the last syllable. Interestingly, the language does not have grammatical gender categories, feminine is made by giving an ending to a word. What makes the language even more difficult to learn is the fact that the Armenian language uses a colon at the end of a sentence, not a full stop and in the place of a comma, a full stop is used. Many sounds in Armenian have no analogue in any other language in the world. Grammatical features between west Armenian and east Armenian have some differences and the phonological systems of the two Armenian literary languages can result in different pronunciations of the same word. There are about 60 dialects in Armenian. Nowadays most common dialect groups are the Ararat dialect in the eastern branch and the Anatolia dialect in the western branch. With the exception of Muslim Hamshenians in Turkey and a part of the Armenians from the North Caucasus, other dialect speakers also use one of the two literary forms when interacting with speakers of other dialects and in official business, work and education.