Armenian

Armenian language

The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...

 is the official language of Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

, and is spoken as a first language by 97.7% of its population. Armenian belongs to an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. It is a highly inflective language, with a complicated system of declensions. Modern Armenian is agglutinative, rich in consonants, and has no grammatical gender. There are two main dialects: Eastern Armenian, the official language of Armenia, and Western Armenian spoken mainly in the Armenian Diaspora. The alphabet, patterned after Pahlavi and Greek letters, has 38 characters (initially 36). Surviving Armenian literature dates from the early 5th century ad. Yezidi Kurdish is spoken by about 1% of the population; Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

and other various languages are spoken by the remaining 2%.