Arevmtyan Hayeren

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Arevmtyan Hayeren is the Armenian-language name for Western Armenian, the branch of the Armenian language historically spoken by Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and its diaspora communities.

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instanceOf Western Armenian
branch of the Armenian language
language variety
associatedWithEvent Armenian genocide NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Classical Armenian (Grabar) NERFINISHED
differsFrom Eastern Armenian NERFINISHED
ethnicLanguageOf Armenians of the Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
diaspora Armenians
glossonymType endonym
hasDialect Cilician Armenian dialect
Egyptian Armenian dialect
Jerusalem Armenian dialect
Lebanese Armenian dialect NERFINISHED
Syrian Armenian dialect
hasLiteraryTraditionSince 19th century
hasMorphologicalFeature distinct verb conjugation patterns from Eastern Armenian
hasOrthographicStandard traditional Armenian orthography
hasPhonologicalFeature different realization of Classical Armenian stops and affricates compared to Eastern Armenian
preservation of classical Armenian vowel length distinctions more than Eastern Armenian
historicallySpokenIn Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
ISO639Macrolanguage hye
languageOfName Armenian
mutuallyIntelligibleWith Eastern Armenian to a significant degree
nameInLanguage Western Armenian NERFINISHED
recognizedBy UNESCO as an endangered language variety
script Armenian alphabet NERFINISHED
spokenIn Argentina NERFINISHED
Armenian diaspora NERFINISHED
Australia NERFINISHED
Canada
Cyprus NERFINISHED
France NERFINISHED
Greece NERFINISHED
Lebanon NERFINISHED
Middle East NERFINISHED
Syria NERFINISHED
Turkey NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
standardFormBasedOn Istanbul Armenian dialect
status endangered language variety
subdivisionOf Armenian language NERFINISHED
usedAsMediumOf Armenian schools in the diaspora
diaspora Armenian press
usedIn Armenian Apostolic Church diaspora communities
Armenian Catholic Church communities
Armenian Evangelical Church communities
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Mesrobian Armenian alphabet NERFINISHED

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Western Armenian hasAlternativeName Arevmtyan Hayeren