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The Armenian language is a member of the Indo-European language family, within which it constitutes its own separate branch.1
While it was once incorrectly classified as a dialect of Iranian, it is now recognized as a distinct language. Linguistically, Armenian is categorized within the satem group of Indo-European languages, though it also exhibits certain characteristics of the centum group.12