Western or Eastern Armenian

[zourna]

Re: Western or Eastern Armenian

Basically, the Armenian, some Parskahais or Libanahais talk is a butchered Armenian and cannot be considered as a dialect of the Armenian language.

Oh wait a minute madame! butchered Armenian you say?! Based on what?
I say Lebanese-Armenian dialect is the finest of all.
A fine blend of Turkish, Arabic, French, English...

You may have a point there... We were the lucky ones that got butchered. So don't hold it against us!

[Կարմիր Բ]

Re: Western or Eastern Armenian

I speak both and I can understand all. We should also get rid of the Russian influence in the Armenian language.

[KarotheGreat]

Re: Western or Eastern Armenian

Karmir B it's going to be harder to get the influnce away because manny Armenians go and work in Russia and they speak there Russian so Russian influence is going to stay till don't know when

[Mos]

Re: Western or Eastern Armenian

look if armenians in armenia (me) speak eastern armenian with a lot of russian words, the rest of the armenian diaspora speaks western armenian. They will uderstand u in armenia but not as well as if u speak eastern.

[TomServo]

Re: Western or Eastern Armenian

You don't have to be an Eastern Armenian from Tbilisi, Yerevan or Persia to read, understand and appreciate Hovhannes Tumanian's stories, Baruyr Sevag's poetry, Raffi's novels, or Sayat-Nova's lyrics. Nor do you have to be a Western Armenian from Istanbul to understand the writings of Krikor Zohrab, Daniel Varujan or Hagop Baronian.

If you know Armenian (Eastern or Western) at an intermediate or advanced level, Yerevan should be no problem for you. But keep in mind that nearly every region in Armenia has a different dialect. For example, I found the Artsakh dialect (or sub-dialect) to be very difficult to understand. In those cases the people will switch from the sub-dialect to standard Eastern Armenian.

[Mr HyeAholic]

Re: Western or Eastern Armenian

[QUOTE=womble;177470]I am currently learning Western Armenian, but I would like to visit Armenia in the future and be able to understand people and to make myself understood. Would it be better to learn Eastrn Armenian, or is it easy enough for people to understand each other across the two dialects?[/QUOTE

womble it just which dialect you pick up faster & what your more comfortable with