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Eastern Armenian (Standard)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Armenian

Lat/lon: 40.1791857, 44.4991

ISO code: hye

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelaruvularglottal
stopb, p, pʰd, t, tʰg, k, kʰ
trillr
tapɾ
fricativev, fz, sʒ, ʃʁ, χh
affricatedz, ts, tsʰdʒ, tʃ, tʃʰ
nasalmn
approximantʋj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
midə
open-midɛɔ
openɑ

Source: Dum-Tragut, Jasmine. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins Publishing, 2009.

Comments: “Glottalised plosives occur in various Armenian dialects and can also be found in the Eastern Armenian vernacular based on the Yerevan dialect, but according to normative grammars, S[tandard] M[odern] E[eastern] A[rmenian] shows no glottalised voiceless plosives” (p. 17–18). The language shows complex patterns of initial (and to some extent final) clusters, but they are always broken up by epenthetic vowels. CCVCC seems to be the most complex structure allowed.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)