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PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I NOMINATES THE COUNCIL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WESTERN
ARMENIAN LANGUAGE
After consultation with educational and cultural organizations and Western
Armenian linguists, His Holiness Aram I nominated a diaspora-wide 25-member
Council to work towards the preservation and protection of Western Armenian
language.
The creation of the Council had been recommended at a conference Catholicos
Aram I organized in 2011 in Bikfaya, Lebanon to study how the Armenian
Genocide and its consequent diaspora had affected the usage of the language.
Yesterday, the nominees to the Council living in Lebanon met with His
Holiness Aram I. They received the list of members and a draft document,
stating the goals and programmatic guidelines, which is being sent to all
members asking for their input; the goals and guidelines will be shared with
the public after all comments are incorporated.
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Director
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org/
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I NOMINATES THE COUNCIL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WESTERN
ARMENIAN LANGUAGE
After consultation with educational and cultural organizations and Western
Armenian linguists, His Holiness Aram I nominated a diaspora-wide 25-member
Council to work towards the preservation and protection of Western Armenian
language.
The creation of the Council had been recommended at a conference Catholicos
Aram I organized in 2011 in Bikfaya, Lebanon to study how the Armenian
Genocide and its consequent diaspora had affected the usage of the language.
Yesterday, the nominees to the Council living in Lebanon met with His
Holiness Aram I. They received the list of members and a draft document,
stating the goals and programmatic guidelines, which is being sent to all
members asking for their input; the goals and guidelines will be shared with
the public after all comments are incorporated.