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REVIVING THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE
BIAnet.org
Feb 16 2012
Turkey
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 February and
stretches over a period of one year.
Istanbul - BÄ°A News Center16 February 2012, Thursday The language
workshop about the Western Armenian language organized by the
Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association will start this Saturday
(18 February). In 2009, the UNESCO added Western Armenian, one of the
two forms of modern Armenian, to the "Atlas of the World's Languages
in Danger" as a "definitely endangered language".
The workshop will stretch over a period of one year and is designed
for 20 students who are continuing from the first, second and third
level. The different parts of the workshop will be held at the Talar
Sileyan training institution. One course takes three months.
In the first course considered as an "Introduction to Armenian", the
students will be familiarized with the different alphabet consisting
of 38 letters, reading, writing exercises, deciphering Turkish texts
written in the Armenian alphabet and basic vocabulary on topics like
numbers, names of months and days, colours, greeting phrases, food,
professions, age, verbs in present tense and future tense. The number
of new students to enrol is limited to ten.
Western and Eastern Armenian Armenian is an Indo-European language. The
alphabet was invented by clergyman Aziz Mesrob MaÅ~_dots in 405
AD. Later on, another two letters were added to the alphabet. Western
and Eastern Armenian are the two standardized forms of modern
Armenian. Western Armenian is being spoken in Turkey and the Western
Armenian Diaspora while Eastern Armenian is mainly being used in
Armenia and the area of the former Soviet Republic. (CT/VK)
From: A. Papazian
BIAnet.org
Feb 16 2012
Turkey
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 February and
stretches over a period of one year.
Istanbul - BÄ°A News Center16 February 2012, Thursday The language
workshop about the Western Armenian language organized by the
Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association will start this Saturday
(18 February). In 2009, the UNESCO added Western Armenian, one of the
two forms of modern Armenian, to the "Atlas of the World's Languages
in Danger" as a "definitely endangered language".
The workshop will stretch over a period of one year and is designed
for 20 students who are continuing from the first, second and third
level. The different parts of the workshop will be held at the Talar
Sileyan training institution. One course takes three months.
In the first course considered as an "Introduction to Armenian", the
students will be familiarized with the different alphabet consisting
of 38 letters, reading, writing exercises, deciphering Turkish texts
written in the Armenian alphabet and basic vocabulary on topics like
numbers, names of months and days, colours, greeting phrases, food,
professions, age, verbs in present tense and future tense. The number
of new students to enrol is limited to ten.
Western and Eastern Armenian Armenian is an Indo-European language. The
alphabet was invented by clergyman Aziz Mesrob MaÅ~_dots in 405
AD. Later on, another two letters were added to the alphabet. Western
and Eastern Armenian are the two standardized forms of modern
Armenian. Western Armenian is being spoken in Turkey and the Western
Armenian Diaspora while Eastern Armenian is mainly being used in
Armenia and the area of the former Soviet Republic. (CT/VK)
From: A. Papazian