A dialect of Toumbulu.
Arkiko.
A dialect of Ethiopic allied to Adaiel; otherwise classed as a sub-dialect of Amharic.
Armenian.
The vernacular speech of Armenia, a mountainous country of Asiatic Turkey, bordering on the S.E. extremity of the Black Sea, including Mt. Ararat. Armenian is written from left to right, and has an alphabet peculiar to itself, which has been modernized from an older original, attributed to Miesrob, A.D. 406.
⁂ The language is essentially an Aryan dialect, akin to Achæmenian Persian and Zend, but still distinct from either: into which have been absorbed a large number of Turanian roots. G. R.
Armenic.
A branch of the great Indo-European family of speech not yet clearly defined. It is the parent of modern Armenian, and of an older form of the same language, called Old Armenic, now extinct. It has, provisionally, been classed with Kurdish, Ossetic and Pushtoo. See [Aryan].
Armeno-Kurdish.