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'''Armenie fowk''' or '''Armenies''' ({{lang-hy|[[wikt:հայեր|հայեր]]}}, {{IPA-hy|hɑˈjɛɾ}}) are a [[naition]] an [[ethnic group]] native tae the [[Armenie Heichland]].

The lairgest concentration is in [[Armenie]], haein a near homogeneous population wi 97.9% or 3,145,354 bein ethnic Armenie.<ref name="daa1">{{Cite web |url=http://docs.armstat.am/census/pdfs/51.pdf |title=2001 Official Armenian Census statistics. |access-date=2012-05-04 |archive-date=2010-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602023627/http://docs.armstat.am/census/pdfs/51.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Acause o wide-rangin an lang-lastin [[Armenie diaspora|diaspora]], an estimatit tot o 3 million fowk o fou or pairtial Armenie ancestry live ootwi Armenie. As a result o the [[Armenie Genocide]], a fair feck o survivors fled tae mony kintras ootower the warld, maist notably in [[Armenians in Roushie|Roushie]], [[Armenie American|Unitit States]], [[Armenies in Fraunce|Fraunce]], [[Armenies in Iran|Iran]], [[Armenies in Georgie|Georgie]] an ither [[Armenie diaspora in Europe|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]]<ref name="HistofChrist">see {{Cite book|first = Adrian | last = Hastings | title = A World History of Christianity | publisher = Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing | page = 289 | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4875-8 }}</ref> In the early 4t century, the [[Kinrick o Armenie (antiquity)|Kinrick o Armenie]] became the first naition tae adopt Christianity as a state releegion.<ref name="ncccusa">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncccusa.org/news/01news36a.html|title=Armenia first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion.|accessdate=2007-02-27|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wQJe0KAo?url=http://www.ncccusa.org/news/01news36a.html|archivedate=2011-02-11|deadurl=no|url-status=live}}</ref>  Maist Armenians adhere tae the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]], a [[non-Chalcedonian]] kirk, whilk is the warld's auldest naitional kirk.

[[Armenie leid|Armenie]] is an [[Indo-European]] [[leid isolate]]. Armenies speak twa mutually intelligible an written forms o [[Armenie leid|thair leid]]: [[Eastren Armenie]], thir days spoken mainly in Armenie, Iran an the umwhile Soviet republics, an [[Wastren Armenie leid|Wastren Armenie]], uised in the historical [[Wastren Armenie]] an, efter the [[Armenie Genocide|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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