Os armenios (en armenio: Հայեր; hayer) son un grupo étnico que habita no Planalto Armenio. Os armenios constitúen a principal poboación de Armenia e da república independente de facto de Artsakh. Existe unha diáspora de arredor de 5 millóns de persoas con devanceiros armenios vivindo fóra da moderna Armenia. As principais poboacións da diáspora viven en Rusia, os Estados Unidos, Francia, Xeorxia, Irán, Alemaña, Ucraína, o Líbano, o Brasil e Siria. Agás as poboacións de Irán e dos antigos estados soviéticos, a diáspora armenia actual produciuse como resultado do xenocidio armenio.[16]
A maioría dos armenios pertence á Igrexa apostólica armenia, que é tamén a máis antiga igrexa nacional do mundo. O cristianismo comezou a espallarse en Armenia pouco despois da morte de Xesús, grazas ós esforzos de dous dos seus apóstolos, Xudas Tadeo e Bertomeu.[17] A comezos do século IV, o Reino de Armenia converteuse no primeiro estado en adoptar o cristianismo como relixión de estado.[18]
A lingua armenia é unha lingua indoeuropea. Ten dúas formas escritas mutuamente intelixibles: a oriental, falada en Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh e Irán, e o occidental falado na histórica Armenia Occidental e, despois do xenocidio armenio, nas principais comunidades da diáspora. O alfabeto armenio foi inventado no ano 405 por Mesrop Mashtots.
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The nearly 3 million Armenians in Armenia (and 3–4 million in the Armenian Diaspora worldwide) "perceive" the nearly 8 million Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan as "Turks."
- McGoldrick, Monica; Giordano, Joe; Garcia-Preto, Nydia (18 de agosto de 2005). Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition (3 ed.). Guilford Press. p. 439. ISBN 9781606237946.
The impact of such a horror on a group who presently number approximately 6 million, worldwide, is incalculable.
- Gevorg Sargsyan; Ani Balabanyan; Denzel Hankinson (1 de xaneiro de 2006). From Crisis to Stability in the Armenian Power Sector: Lessons Learned from Armenia's Energy Reform Experience (ilustrado ed.). World Bank Publications. p. 18. ISBN 9780821365908.
The country's estimated 3–6 million Diaspora represent a major source of foreign direct investment in the country.
- Arthur G. Sharp (15 de setembro de 2011). The Everything Guide to the Middle East: Understand the people, the politics, and the culture of this conflicted region. Adams Media. p. 137. ISBN 9781440529122.
Since the newly independent Republic of Armenia was declared in 1991, nearly 4 million of the world's 6 million Armenians have been living on the eastern edge of their Middle Eastern homeland.
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- Von Voss, Huberta (2007). Portraits of Hope: Armenians in the Contemporary World. Nova York: Berghahn Books. p. xxv. ISBN 9781845452575.
...there are some 8 million Armenians in the world...
- Freedman, Jeri (2008). The Armenian genocide. Nova York: Rosen Publishing Group. p. 52. ISBN 9781404218253.
In contrast to its population of 3.2 million, approximately 8 million Armenians live in other countries of the world, including large communities in the America and Russia.
- Guntram H. Herb, David H. Kaplan (2008). Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview: A Global Historical Overview. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 1705. ISBN 9781851099085.
A nation of some 8 million people, about 3 million of whom live in the newly independent post-Soviet state, Armenians are constantly battling not to lose their distinct culture, identity and the newly established statehood.
- Robert A. Saunders, Vlad Struko (2010). Historical dictionary of the Russian Federation. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780810854758.
- Philander, S. George (2008). Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change. Los Angeles: SAGE. p. 77. ISBN 9781412958783.
An estimated 60 percent of the total 8 million Armenians worldwide live outside the country...
- Robert A. Saunders, Vlad Strukov (2010). Historical dictionary of the Russian Federation. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780810874602.
Worldwide, there are more than 8 million Armenians; 3.2 million reside in the Republic of Armenia.
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- ↑ United States Census Bureau (ed.). "Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported 2011 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". Consultado o 22 de decembro de 2012.
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- ↑ Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. "Population estimates of NKR as of 01.01.2013". Arquivado dende o orixinal o 23 de outubro de 2019. Consultado o 20 de febreiro de 2014.
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