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Proto-Armenian, as the ancestor of only one living language, has no clear definition of the term. It is generally held to include a variety of ancestral stages of Armenian between Proto-Indo-European and the earliest attestations of Classical Armenian .
Of his works we should mention especially: “History of the Armenian language” (AčaṙHLPatm 1940-1951), Liakatar K‘erakanut‘yun (“Complete grammar”, AčaṙLiak 1952-2005), and especially his magnificent “Armenian Etymological Dictionary” (HAB), originally published between 1926 and 1935. (6) Ačaṙyan’s traditions have been ...
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This passage has often been cited to explain the origin of the Armenians and the introduction of the Proto-Armenian language into the South Caucasus region. However, the latest studies in linguistics show that the Armenian language is as close to Indo-Iranian as it is to Graeco-Phrygian .
Proto-Armenian was situated between Proto-Greek (to the west) and Proto-Indo-Iranian (to the east). The Indo-Iranians then moved eastwards, while the Proto-Armenians and Proto-Greeks remained in a common geographical region for a long period and developed numerous shared innovations. At a later stage, together or independently, they borrowed a
Proto-Armenian differentiated from Phrygian by language evolution over time but also by the Hurro-Urartian language substrate influence. Classification is difficult because little is known of Phrygian, but Proto-Armenian arguably forms a subgroup with Greek and Indo-Iranian .
[speaking a language] very much like Phrygians.”5 Another Greek historian, Xenophon, in his Anabasis, mentions Armenia in the context of the retreat of a detachment of the Greek army extensively, calling it a “spacious and plentiful country.”6 In another work by Xenophon, the largely fictional Cyropaedia (The Education of Cyrus), the ...
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Download Free PDF. View PDF. Ronald I. Kim Greco-Armenian The persistence of a myth Abstract: It has been generally held since the beginning of the 20th century that Armenian is more closely related to Greek than to any other Indo-European branch.
