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Where is Western Armenian spoken?

Western Armenian is an Indo-European language, spoken in Russia and Turkey. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Western Armenian is spoken

Western Armenian is spoken in 2 countries: Russia and Turkey.

Country
Russia
Turkey

On the map, Western Armenian is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Western Armenian.

How many people speak Western Armenian?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Western Armenian sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Western Armenian as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Armenic
  4. Eastern-Western Armenian
  5. Western Armenian

Related languages

Other languages in the Eastern-Western Armenian group:

More about Western Armenian

Codes: ISO 639-3 hyw, Glottolog homs1234. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Western Armenian

Where is Western Armenian spoken?

Western Armenian is spoken in Russia and Turkey. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Western Armenian in?

Glottolog places Western Armenian in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Armenic and Eastern-Western Armenian.

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