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Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. ''A History of the English Language''. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2013.

pp. 21--22

18. Armenian. Armenian is found in a small area south of the Caucasus Mountains and the eastern end of the Black Sea. The penetration of Armenians into this region is generally put between the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. They evidently came into their present location by way of the Balkans and across the Hellespont. The newcomers conquered a population of which remnants are still perhaps to be found in the Caucasus and whose language may have influenced Armenian in matters of accent and phonology. Armenian shows a shifting of certain consonants that recalls the shifts in Germanic described earlier and which, like those, may be due to contact with other languages. Moreover, like the south Caucasus languages, Armenian lacks grammatical gender. Armenian is not linked to any other special group of the Indo-European family by common features such as those that connect Indian with Iranian. It occupies a somewhat isolated position. But in ancient times, Thrace and Macedonia were occupied by two peoples---the Traco-Phrygians, whom Herodotus mentions as very numerous, and the Macedonians, whose kings for a time adopted Greek and enjoyed a short but brilliant career in Greek history. The Phrygians, like the Armenians, passed into Asia Minor and are familiar to us as the Trojans of Homer. Their language shows certain affinities with Armenian; if we knew more about it, we should probably find in it additional evidence for the early association of the two peoples. Unfortunately, we have only scanty remains of Phrygian and Macedonian---chiefly place names, glosses, and inscriptions---enough merely to prove their Indo-European character and give a clue to the linguistic affiliation.
Armenian is know to us from about the fifth century of our era through a translation of the Bible in the language. There is a considerable Armenian literature, chiefly historical and theological. The Armenians for several centuries were under Persian domination, and the vocabulary shows such strong Iranian influence that Armenian was at one time classed as an Iranian language. Numerous contacts with Semitic languages, with Greek, and with Turkish have contributed further to give the vocabulary a rich character.

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英語史の古典的名著 Bauch and Cable を，およそ週に1回で1節ずつ読んでいくという，気の長いオンライン読書会のシリーズです（全部で264節ある本です）．英書ですが，平易で模範的な英語で書かれている英文ですので，英語史の学びのみならず英文読解にも役立つと思います．読み進めていくテキストは，以下のものです．

・ Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. *A History of the English Language*. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2013. （最新の第6版で読み進めていることにご注意ください） https://amzn.to/3ZBzgcI

本書および本シリーズについて詳しくは，hellog 「#5205. Baugh and Cable の英語史概説書を1節ずつ読み進めながら Voicy heldio で自由にコメントしていく試みを始めています」 http://user.keio.ac.jp/~rhotta/hellog/2023-07-28-1.html をご覧下さい．

シリーズ初回は「英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (1) The History of the English Language as a Cultural Subject」 https://voicy.jp/channel/1950/570931 となっています．

このシリーズでは，当該の節について英文を1文1文和訳して解説していくわけではありません．リスナーの皆さんには前もって指定の節を読んでいただいていることを前提として，私が英語史の立場から節の内容に関して縦横無尽にコメントしていくというのが基本的な進め方です．通常配信回の話題選びは任意ですが，この B&C 読書会シリーズでは，節の内容に即して歴史の順序で私が話をしていきますので，体系的に英語史を学びたい方にお勧めです．

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