Artificial Problems of Armenian Studies in Academic Science
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article touches upon a situation in the field of Armenian studies, which was initially created as a bogus receiving pseudo-scientific formulations, which in academic linguistics led to a false image of the commonalities of Armenian and the languages of the world. Historical-comparative linguistics should not accept the situation in which the number of Nostratic commonalities connecting Armenian to single non-Indo-European languages is greater than the number of the commonalities it has with all the Indo-European languages together. This has no interpretation in the framework of previous conceptions, and a new framework has not yet been proposed. By not raising the problem or avoiding it, linguistics cannot solve it. Recently, the situation has been intensified by the exceptional discoveries made by a number of new linguistic directions, according to which the age of Armenian as an independent language is increasing, the issue of the indigenousness of Armenians in the Armenian Highlands is proven. The image of the Armenian language branch in the Indo-European language family should also be changed, firstly, due to the unscientific alienation of the Armenian and Khetaluvian language branches, secondly, due to the extensive sameness of Sumerian and Basque (which have not been considered Indo-European so far) with Armenian (which is considered Indo-European), thus being presented as languages of the Armenian branch. The article poses the problem that academic linguistics should either scientifically interpret these inconsistencies, or accept the historical mistakes it has made in relation to the Armenian language.
Source: JOURNAL FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES
Author: Hrachik Hakobjanyan
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4408857221