11 Facts About Western Armenian

Western Armenian is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Eastern Armenian.

Until the early 20th century, various Western Armenian dialects were spoken in the Ottoman Empire, especially in the eastern regions historically populated by Armenians known as Western Armenia.

Forms of the Karin dialect of Western Armenian are spoken by several hundred thousand people in Northern Armenia, mostly in Gyumri, Artik, Akhuryan, and around 130 villages in the Shirak province, and by Armenians in Samtskhe–Javakheti province of Georgia.

Western Armenian is an Indo-European language and belongs to the Armenic branch of the family, along with Eastern and Classical Armenian.

Western Armenian is spoken by Armenians of most of the Middle East except for Iran, and Rostov-on-Don in Russia.

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Western Armenian has ten environments in which two vowels in the orthography appear next to each other, called diphthongs.

In Western Armenian is rare; the letter "?" was added to the alphabet much later.

Secondly, Western Armenian has both changed the Classical Armenian voiced stops and voiced affricates to aspirated stops and aspirated affricates and replaced the plain stops and affricates with voiced consonants.

Western Armenian uses Classical Armenian orthography, commonly known as traditional Mashtotsian orthography.

Adjectives in Western Armenian do not decline for case or number, and precede the noun:.

Verbs in Western Armenian are based on two basic series of forms, a "present" form and an "imperfect" form.