I knew Armenian, my first language, before I knew anything else. I knew the language before I discovered my hobbies and passions. I knew the language before I knew how to do simple addition and ...
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Jennifer Manoukian, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, said Armenians still long to preserve their language because they share the belief that if they lose their language, they lose ...
The conference It Takes a Diaspora to Raise a Language: Future Directions for Western Armenian, organized by the University ...
The Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association organizes a workshop about the Western Armenian language. The project on the language that is endangered to disappear completely will start on 18 ...
We create community in a variety of ways. A community can be the familiar faces and houses you pass on your daily walk, or the swirl of shared language in the air. Sometimes, it takes the form of ink ...
Once spoken by two million people across the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Armenian has shrunk to the point of becoming an endangered language following a century marked by massacres and mass emigration.