Although Armenian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages and Armenians one of the oldest Indo-European people, the earliest testimony of the Armenian language dates to the 5th century AD (the Bible translation of Mesrob Mashtots). Many scholars of Indo-European studies (Renfrew, Ivanov, Gamkrelidze, Clackson, Fortson) put Armenian into a larger language family, a "Graeco-Armeno-Aryan", which would date to after 3000 BC and constitute a language group contemporary to, and in language contact with, the Anatolian language family adjacent to the west
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