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Armenia's constitution does not specify the linguistic standard. In practice, the Eastern Armenian language dominates government, business, and everyday life in Armenia. [1] As of today, Russian is still, by far, the best known foreign language among the Armenian population. English is gaining popularity in recent years.
About 30,000 people were killed and more than a million people displaced. The Armenian leaders of Karabakh said in a statement that all those made homeless by the most recent Azerbaijani military ...
The ethnic Armenian population in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region will leave for Armenia after Azerbaijan reclaimed the territory in a brief offensive, a local official says. “Our people ...
Soviet Armenia (1924) was the first Armenian documentary film. Namus was the first Armenian silent black and white film (1926, Namus at IMDb ), directed by Hamo Beknazarian and based on a play of Alexander Shirvanzade describing the ill fate of two lovers, who were engaged by their families to each other since childhood, but because of ...
Today, the Yerevan dialect, which is the basis of colloquial Eastern Armenian, [4] [5] is spoken by nearly all native residents of Yerevan. In addition, virtually all dialects in Armenia, Republic of Artsakh and Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakheti region are influenced by the standardized form of the Yerevan dialect through the educational system. [ 3 ]
Citibank’s and other anti-Armenian actions will only cause Armenian Americans to hunker down deeper into their reverential values, to work harder and to push forward for the greater good with ...
In modern day Armenia, there is a municipality called Gyumri, the city took host to large numbers of Armenian refugees fleeing the Ottoman Empire from the Armenian Genocide. Many of these people spoke the Karin dialect of Armenian, which is spoken in Gyumri but overtime many Eastern Armenian and Russian words have been borrowed into the dialect.
A separatist Armenian human rights official said on Wednesday that at least 200 people had been killed and more than 400 wounded in the fighting. Ten of those killed were civilians, of whom five ...