Boekvertaler van Frans naar Armeens

French is a Romance language spoken by about eighty million native speakers and 230 million total speakers worldwide, an official language in twenty-nine countries and a working language of the United Nations. Crossing from the Romance family into the Armenian family requires the translator to rebuild grammatical scaffolding from scratch, since these branches diverged thousands of years ago and share little inherited vocabulary.

Armenian is a valuable target for reaching the five-million-strong global Armenian community, including the Republic of Armenia and a worldwide diaspora that prizes cultural preservation. Because the source uses Latin script and the target uses Armenian script, translators handle transliteration of names and untranslatable terms with care, choosing conventions that readers of the target language will recognize.

French literature includes Montaigne, Moliere, Voltaire, Hugo, Proust, Camus, and fifteen Nobel laureates in literature, more than any other country. Armenian is used in Armenian government, broadcasting, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and a flourishing diaspora literature scene in North America and Europe.