Armenian (Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut Western Armenian)
Toparlak, Tabita · 2024
A phonetic description ('Illustration of the IPA') comparing two major Armenian standards: Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut Western Armenian. Situates Armenian as an independent Indo-European branch descending from fifth-century Classical Armenian and surveys its modern dialect families and speaker communities. Notes UNESCO's listing of Western Armenian as endangered and the diaspora's language-promotion efforts across the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas, including communities formed by Genocide survivors and Syrian-war refugees.
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Toparlak, Tabita 2024. Armenian (Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut Western Armenian). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 445–478 (Cambridge University Press); DOI 10.1017/S0025100323000130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000130
What this offers a reader
A precise reference for the sounds of both Armenian standards; useful for linguistics coursework.
Peer-reviewed IPA Illustration; the standard citable phonetic description of both Armenian standards.
Documents Western Armenian, our endangered diaspora language, in rigorous detail.
Explains the real differences between Eastern and Western Armenian and why the latter is endangered.
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