I do think it is important to strive for correct spelling, although fear of making mistakes should not stop us from expressing ourselves in our language. And he’s right, isn’t he? The new Gulbenkian. It is spoken with many annoying variety of accents enough to drive a sane person to insanity. I’d like to say how thankful I am for this article. In closing, this comment section has gotten a bit out of hand. Yes, please! This means I earn a commission if you click on any of them and buy something. eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'omniglot_com-box-3','ezslot_0',115,'0','0'])); Information about Armenian | The area of Russian occupation of that region in summer 1916. Eastern Armenians pronounce all the sounds in the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots while Western Armenian can’t pronounce 15 of those original sounds anymore. Of course! Western Armenian spoken by the diaspora is the Istanbul dialect of broken Armenian with dropped sounds switched sounds has lost all the Indo European features and sounds more like Arabic now yet they claim its “real” Armenian when it’s the complete opposite. Official status Official language of: Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh: Regulated by: National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Language codes ISO 639-1: hy ISO 639-2(B): arm ISO 639-2(T): hye SIL: ARM Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the Caucasus mountains and also used by the Armenian Diaspora. What came after was a global pandemic and the title of this piece: a boom in Western Armenian content that is creative, vocal and witty in nature, incentivized by the starving need for daily familial and familiar conversations, online—not in a textbook, not within the four walls of a classroom, not only about patriotism or nationalism, but about our present and every day; finally, like any other thriving language, alive. Family words in Western Armenian. They don’t seem to ask themselves why invent the hard ‘T (‘toon-house) if he meant to pronounce it as Doon, or the hard ‘K (‘kin-woman), if he meant to pronounce it as Geen. I’m happy to see Western Armenian being used and celebrated. A, on his YouTube channel? The area of Russian occupation of Western Armenia in summer 1916 (Russian map). Unless you’ve been living under. So what? Family words (Eastern Armenian) | Modern Armenian embraces two written varieties—Western Armenian (Arewmtahayerên) and Eastern Armenian (Arewelahayerên)—and many dialects are spoken. The area was conquered by the Ottomans in the 16th century during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555) against their Iranian Safavid arch-rivals. Persis, Parthia, Armenia. Maybe it’s time the older generation should consider giving us some space to breathe and create in a language that feels like home but also, somehow, too distant to be used in everyday life. “Bagh” (cold) is also Greek. Here’s how it works: young (and not so young) Armenian speakers submit their short or long paragraphs or articles with the goal of improving their written language. The author’s intent was to highlight a small renaissance in Western Armenian. The Armenians living in their ancestral lands were exterminated or deported by Ottoman forces during the 1915 Armenian Genocide and over the following years. Vahe Berberian and his. Not too far back, Hamazkayin’s “Kantsaran” launched an online contest—, (Let’s stay home and create)—to encourage young Armenians to write poetry about the pandemic.
