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What if there’s a language that has survived every single empire that ever tried to conquer it? A linguistic time traveler so ancient it might hold the key to where all European languages actually came from?
Meet Armenian – a survivor that has witnessed the rise and fall of Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Ottomans, yet somehow still thrives today. While entire civilizations vanished without a trace, this language preserved secrets that could rewrite our understanding of human migration.
But here’s the mystery: Armenian belongs to the Indo-European family, yet it’s so different that linguists can’t figure out where it fits. Some evidence suggests that instead of being just another branch, Armenian might be growing at the very roots. Could the homeland of all European languages be hiding in plain sight?
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03:25 History
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13:36 Language structure
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It sounds similar to Kurmanji, which is what my Yazidi friends from Iraq speak. In their dialect, however, the vowels seem to be more prominent, and the pronunciation sounds slightly harsher overall, which is likely due to Arabic influence.
Love and admiration.
I believe there are Armenian speakers in Israel too. Quite a sizeable minority.
Greek and Armenian languages are sisters🇬🇷🇦🇲
It's worth mentioning, I think, that in the context of the theory which links Huro-Urartian to Nakh-Dagestanian languages (like Chechen or Lezghi) the loanword term khnjor – > henzurru 'apple' was theorized to derive from proto-ND *hamc-
I’m an Armenian, but unfortunately I hardly speak Armenian and I want to fix it. Thank you for the video
As a Georgian, Armenian sounds like gibberish Georgian to me because of our similar phonology
This information is wrong in many cases, even very funny to hear some of the things she says. 👎👎👎
The ark landed close to there
Eastern sounds like Hungarian to me.
Armenian sounds like German to me! I am surprised.
Excellent, thanks 🙏
As an iranian i have soooo much love and respect for both iranian armenians and armenian armenians. We are both very ancient and have always been in sort of a good relationship. needless to say there were many marriages between our kings and armenian princesses (Khosrow and Shirin as an example are the peak example of love in persian literature :)! )
Thanks for a great video. Your pronunciation is amazing.
Absolutely GORGEOUS
Armenian is probably spoken by 6 Million, or even a little more, and not the conservative 5 million estimate. Because Armenians are worldwide, some who speak the language can easily be overlooked. Armenian Diaspora should do a better job of fostering and teaching the language, for those on the periphery of the community.
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Love from NAIRI to everyone🔴🔵🟠
Thanks for your well-articulated pronunciations. Would you be able to distinguish Aeolic, Ionic and Dorian ancient Greek dialects?
They talk as if they were a modern nation forcibly held by Turks, which is simply false.
Under the Ottoman Empire, they were not prisoners — they lived as a community within the system, like many others.
There was no independent nation-state being occupied.
The hostility today isn’t based on lived history, but on later political propaganda.
Ask basic questions and there are no answers — even their own leaders have apologized, visited Turkey, and openly sought peace.
So this idea of eternal victimhood doesn’t come from facts.
It comes from narratives repeated long after the events.
Yet in reality, we are not so different.
If you put aside propaganda and speak in understanding, you could live together as brothers and sisters, side by side.
Imagine how strong and harmonious we could be if we actually respected each other. 🇹🇷🫶🏻
Armenians were expelled from Persia to Caucasus.
All thanks & gratitude to the author, her channel, and the amazing contents (especially this one) 🙂 I just want to mention a small (yet critical) detail: Armenians collectively (in Armenia itself + the diaspora) are at least double the number you mentioned at about 11 million (some estimates go 1 million lower, some 1-3 million higher, and without adding the 2 million hidden Turkish armenians & Hamshen Armenians + an unknown thousands-100s of thousands of Armenians who simply changed their surnames to Russian & Greek, French, Italian, German, English, Persian, and Arabic and even Turkish. Most of whom do not want everyone to know their origin (makes getting a job & thriving in life much easier even here in the west where I live, believe me…another long topic.) Here are a few sources for my facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_population_by_country and https://www.advantour.com/armenia/people.htm, and AI puts it at 11-14 million in 2025. Again, all love and respect, and keep up the good work.
Hello. Related nations reveal themselves through their languages, which is why I'm researching languages. I wish I could learn some Armenian too. The Assyrian king Sargon II called the Phrygians "Mushki." I wonder it's meaning and why he said that?
Lovely language. BUT WHO TF DECIDED TO PUT SO MANY WORDS THAT LOOK LIKE “W”’s?!😭🙏🏻
Phrygians
I talk to a Phrygian everyday and he's very helpful. He's not a bartender but he carries my beer for me and keeps it nice and cold. He has changed the spelling of his name, of course, for some reason. I call my Phrygian beer keeper, Fridge!
Why did you betray own country and live in a weird place?
Հայերեն խոսեցե՞ք:
I am a Muslim and I am proud of my religion, not my race. I do not like my race, even though my race is Azerbaijani. I greet all my Armenian brothers who are followers of Tawhid.
I love Armenia from Poland
In defense of Armenian what you read is pretty much how it sounds whereas in many other languages what you read is pronounced dramatically different.
Whenever I hear Armenian being spoken or sung it feels oddly familiar, like I should understand it but I actually don’t. I speak Kurdish by the way.
Julie I watch you in the background when working (design) it gives me great joy keep up the fantastic work!
sounds like persian without persian words to me 😊
“Indo-european” is jyst as dumb and absurd as the theory of evolution of species
Another great video. How Armenian managed to persist for so long in that region is a true survival story. And welcome to Dubai!
The particle count in Yerevan today is 136, 114 in Dubai, hmmmm? Can't understand how nice people can live like that?
In the Great War, Armenians fought against the Turks for their freedom in alliance with the Russian Empire, the Unity and Progress Party decided to exile the Armenians from Eastern Türkiye to Syria until the end of the war in order to solve the Armenian problem, and aimed to resettle them in Eastern Türkiye when the war ended, but Kurmanji and Arab chauvinists supported by the Allied Powers took advantage of the exile and massacred 900 thousand Armenian civilians, and Turkish soldiers who tried to protect them were martyred
Not entirely likely, Because they are nowadays partly Iranian….
& Mostly Caucasian, & others…..
What if the Armenians are actually the Hurrians and Urartians….
Thank you for the video! Great job! Interesting and accurate. As an Armenian, I have nothing to add or redact. Long live Armenia 🇦🇲 ❤️
ad of a network?
but the video is fun, ok.
I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and hope the Frisian culture and language continue on their own journey, unimpeded. ❤️🕊️
Serbian here. My best man is Armenian. His grandfather survived genocide and had 3 sons. They are very well integrated in our society, Serbs very much respect them and the Serbian government helped Armenian refugees in 1917 giving them land and houses. They are very kind people, loyal to family and friends, hard working and resilient. Serbs had a similar destiny since we lost more then 2 million people in 20 century alone. Much love for our Armenian brother and sisters.
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Bjishk (doctor) is an Armenian word. You can brake it down to bj which comes from bouj = cure (bot in Swedish pronounced bout) and the suffix -ishk = occupation. The J in bjishk is pronounced as the J in the french name Jean. In Persian, peZeshk can not be broken down with a meaning as either pez or -ishk mean anything or exist in Persian. Yes, many words have come in to Armenian from Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Greek but not bjishk.
Armenians are of the Turkic origin. This is known by Russian Historians , in Armenia 2 professors did find out the real heritage of Armenias . They did tell Armenians are also Turkic. When they said this one was murderd the other one did flee to Russia. In Russia I did find out that Russian proffessors already knew that Armenias are Turkic, many centuries they knew this true. He did ask why you never told this to us Armenias… ( of cours to play Turkis and Armenias against each other) .
Armenian is showing correlation with the Khwarazmian language from the city of Khwarazam which was destroyed by Chagiz Khan army so the language speakers were lost in the history.
Sorry but you should be ashamed for spreading misinformation Armenians came from a man named ham they spoke a langauge their own and wrote it they didn’t come from Persia or anyone that map pic wherever you got it from is so wrong it’s not even factual but feed your conspiracy theory and Sumerian are not a culture it’s the name of a religion worshipping pagan gods they are Akkadian people who called themselves Sumerian because of who they worshiped look at their langauge it’s Akkadian they made up new words in the Sumerian texts because those words they wanted to be associated to religion the Sumerians took influence from Akkadian to make these words they were Akkadian this is Assyrian history because if they were the first people on the land then who did they come from Shem had 5 sons Elam, ashur , Chaldean guy I don’t know how to spell his name but no different to ashur, aram also assyrian and lud so Sumerian is Assyrian it’s the name of a religion some Assyrians were of and worshiped pagan gods it’s like how in islam the word Muhammad is associated to Islam but his word is Arabic and of Arabic langauge but it’s tied to religion purpose only