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Definition. 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 .
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 .
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Definition. 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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The language whose records date back to this period is termed Classical Armenian. Much later, in the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, one finds the legacy of Middle Armenian, whose authors attempted to emulate the style of the Golden Age of Classical Armenian. Between these two time periods one further distinguishes two stages of the Armenian ...
According to this hypothesis, Proto-Armenian was a language descendant from a common ancestor with Phrygian and was closely related to it. Proto-Armenian differentiated from Phrygian by language evolution over time but also by the Hurro-Urartian language substrate influence.
The chapter assesses the phylogenetic position of Armenian within the Indo-European language family. After examining the most important, independent developments constituting Armenian as a separate language branch, it discusses those phonological, morphological, and lexical innovations that are shared with, in particular, Greek, Phrygian and ...
