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Language in Armenian American communities: Western Armenian and efforts for preservation

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2016
AbstractThis article examines the state of Western Armenian language instruction in Armenian day schools within the United States to evaluate the state of language transmission and acquisition through the specific structure of private schools. In analyzing methodologies and modes of instruction, content development, resources, teacher training and ...
Talar Chahinian, Anny Bakalian
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Ammianus Marcellinus and the Western Armenian Consonantism

Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching, 2023
If not the most essential, but at least the most noticeable difference between the two forms of the modern Armenian language – the Eastern and the Western – is the difference in the pronunciation of a large part of the consonants. In initial position and within the word, the voiceless consonants of Eastern Armenian language have voiced pronunciation in
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Quantification in Western Armenian

2012
After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Western Armenian this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier ...
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Western Armenian Poetry of the Early 20th Century: in Anticipation of Disaster

2023
The article highlights the Armenian patriotic poetry, which has a long tradition and reflects the value facet of the Armenian identity. The abundance of works by Armenian poets of the early twentieth century dedicated to the motherland, historical destinies and the catastrophic events of the late 19 — early 20 century, caused by beatings organized by ...
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ՄԻՋԻՆ ՀԱՅԵՐԵՆ-ԱՐԵՎՄՏԱՀԱՅԵՐԵՆ ՓՈԽԱՆՑՈՒՄՆԵՐԸ ԸՂՁԱԿԱՆ ԵՂԱՆԱԿԻ ՀԱՄԱԿԱՐԳՈՒՄ / MIDDLE ARMENIAN-WESTERN ARMENIAN TRANSITIONS IN OPTATIVE MOOD

Bulletin of Brusov State University, 2022
The examination of the language systems of the Middle Armenian and Western Armenian languages shows that Western Armenian inherited many realities from Middle Armenian. The study of optative mood confirms that the formal and semantic characteristics of Western Armenian coincide with that of Middle Armenian, where this mood was formed on the basis of ...
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Armenian Stem Classes and Western-Middle Iranian Oblique Plural Case

Studi e Saggi Linguistici, 2023
So far, no definitive explanation has been given for the fact that Iranian loanwords in Classical Armenian are very often assigned to a morphological class reflecting the corresponding Old Iranian declension. This has rightly been regarded as problematic because the loanwords entered Armenian in the Middle Iranian period, when Western Iranian dialects ...
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Vowel Production in the Speech of Western Armenian Heritage Speakers

Heritage Language Journal, 2004
This study investigates whether the age at which English becomes dominant for Western Armenian bilinguals in the United States affects their vowel production in Western Armenian. Participating in the study were ten Western-Armenian bilinguals who learned English before age 8, ten bilinguals who did not learn English until adulthood, and one Western ...
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Pluralization in Colloquial Western Armenian: semantic and discoursal implications

Slovo, 2001
Pluralization is commonly thought of in terms of agreement in most languages and across language families. In the domain of morphology, it is relegated to an inflectional process. Though not stated in so many words, it is considered redundant in English at least because a failure to apply agreement has neither grammatical nor communicative consequence.
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Connections between the Middle Armenian and Western Armenian Languages in the System of the Imperative Mode: Imperative (Singular)

Scientific Proceedings of Vanadzor State University. Humanities and Social Sciences
Key words: language, verb, derivative verb, conjugation, mode, conjuction The connection between the language systems of Western Armenian and Middle Armenian are at different linguistic levels. Considering the verb conjugation system, it can be noted that it was Middle Armenian that mostly influenced the development of Western Armenian language: so ...
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The ABCFM press and the development of the Western Armenian language

2020
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