Western Armenian

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Western Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria. During the early 20th century, and the expulsion of almost all the Armenians from Anatolia, Western Armenian was deprived of the land on which it was indigenously spoken. For the last 100 years, Western Armenian has been relegated to a language spoken only in diaspora, by  the Armenians who migrated to various countries in the Middle East.  It is estimated in 50 years the language may become extinct.   As a diasporic language, and as a language that is not an official language of any state, Western Armenian faces extinction as its native speakers lose fluency in Western Armenian amid pressures to assimilate into their host countries.  Additionally, almost all people that are alive today who speak Western Armenian are not from native Armenia, which makes assimilation even easier.  The language is still used by adults, however children are becoming more assimilated to their country of residence and are not able to speak the language.    Additionally conflicts in the Middle East in Syria, the Lebanese Civil War, and forced assimilation policies by Turkish authorities are some of the events that have severely damaged the population base of the language in the last 40 years.  

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as you are interested in Western Armenian, here is thematic vocabulary to learn :

 

http://armenia.armenien.free.fr/index_uk.php

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The link you point to does not teach WESTERN Armenian, it is in written in the Soviet Armenian orthography; secondly, just perusing it very shortly, I cam across misspellings (even in an orthography which was designed to preclude them!).