Is Armenian agglutinative?

Armenian belongs to an independent branch of the Indo-European linguistic family. It is a highly inflective language, with a complicated system of declensions. It is agglutinative, rich in consonants, and has no grammatical gender.

Why is Armenian so different from other Indo-European languages?

The basic vocabulary is quite different, including the numerals up to ten and words for relatives. The existing correspondences may be explained by Persian borrowings or by a distant genetic relation between the languages through a pre-Indo-European super-family (that is, Euroasiatic/Nostratic, or even earlier).

Are there any agglutinative Indo-European languages?

No Indo-European language can be agglutinative[1]- the majority relies on Inflection . The only agglutinative languages which are spoken in Europe, but are not Indo- European are Basque[2], Finnish and Hungarian (Finnic-Ugric)[3] .

What does it mean to say a language is agglutinative?

Definition: An agglutinative language is a language in which words are made up of a linear sequence of distinct morphemes and each component of meaning is represented by its own morpheme. This example consists of one word made up of five morphemes.

Is Persian Agglutinative language?

Persian has some features of agglutination, making use of prefixes and suffixes attached to the stems of verbs and nouns, thus making it a synthetic language rather than an analytic one. Persian is an SOV language, thus having a head-final phrase structure.

Is Armenian satem or centum?

The Centum languages are all in the west or south-west (Celtic, Lusitanian, Germanic, Venetic, Italic, Greek, maybe Phrygian) and the Satem languages are in the east (Balto-Slavic, Thracian, Indo-Iranian and Armenian), so it looks like a dialectal division.

What language is Armenian similar to?

Armenian is an Indo-European language, meaning it is genetically related to languages such as Hittite, Sanskrit, Avestan, Greek, Latin, Gothic, English, and Slavic.

Are Indo-European languages Fusional?

The Indo-European and Semitic languages are the most typically cited examples of fusional languages.

What is the origin of the Armenian language?

Armenian is an Indo-European language, so many of its Proto-Indo-European-descended words are cognates of words in other Indo-European languages such as English, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.

Was there a proto-Armenian dialect group?

Some linguists tentatively conclude that Armenian, Greek (and Phrygian) and Indo-Iranian were dialectally close to each other; within this hypothetical dialect group, Proto-Armenian was situated between Proto-Greek ( centum subgroup) and Proto-Indo-Iranian ( satem subgroup).

Is Armenian a dead language?

Armenian hasn’t become a dead language as, for example, the Latin and Ancient Greek languages of that group. On the contrary, it is going on to develop, expand its lexis and improve its grammar.

When was the Armenian alphabet invented?

Armenian is written in its own writing system, the Armenian alphabet, introduced in 405 AD by the priest Mesrop Mashtots . Armenian is an independent branch of the Indo-European languages. It is of interest to linguists for its distinctive phonological developments within that family.