Armenies

Armenie fowk or Armenies (Armenie: հայեր‎, Armenian pronunciation: [hɑˈjɛɾ]) are a naition an ethnic group native tae the Armenie Heichland.

The lairgest concentration is in Armenie, haein a nearly homogeneous population wi 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenie. Acause o wide-rangin an lang-lastin diaspora, an estimatit total o 3 million fowk o full or pairtial Armenie ancestry live ootside o Armenie. As a result o the Armenie Genocide, a lairge number o survivors fled tae mony kintras throughoot the world, maist notably in Roushie, Unitit States, Fraunce, Iran, Georgie an ither pairts o Europe (see Armenie diaspora).

Christianity began tae spread in Armenie suin efter Jesus Christ's daith, due tae the efforts o twa o his apostles, Saunt Thaddeus an Saunt Bartholomew In the early 4t century, the Kinrick o Armenie became the first naition tae adopt Christianity as a state releegion. Most Armenians adhere to the Armenian Apostolic Church, a non-Chalcedonian church, which is also the world's oldest national church.

Armenie is an Indo-European leid isolate. Armenies speak twa mutually intelligible an written forms o their leid: Eastren Armenie, the day spoken mainly in Armenie, Iran an the umwhile Soviet republics, an Wastren Armenie, uised in the historical Wastren Armenie an, efter the genocide o Armenies in the Ottoman Empire, primarily amangst the Armenie diaspora.

The unique Armenian alphabet wis inventit in 406 AD bi the scholar an evangelizer Mesrob Mashtots.

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