Western Armenian

English

Proper noun

Western Armenian

1. One of the two standardized forms of the modern Armenian language, the other being Eastern Armenian. Following the Genocide of Armenians of 1915, it is now spoken by the descendants of Armenian survivors from the Ottoman Empire fleeing to Armenian diaspora, mainly in North America and South America, Europe and most of the Middle East except for Iran.

Translations

language

• Armenian: արևմտահայերեն (hy) (arewmtahayeren)
• French: arménien occidental
• German: Westarmenisch n
• Persian: ارمنی غربی
• Russian: западноармя́нский (ru) m (zapadnoarmjánskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: zapadni armenski m, западни арменски m
• Turkish: Batı Ermenicesi (tr)

See also

• Armenian
• Eastern Armenian
• Old Armenian

Further reading

• Western Armenian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia