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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043

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Voicing Patterns in Stops among Heritage Speakers of Western Armenian in Lebanon and the US

Kelly, Niamh E. · Keshishian, Lara, 2021

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 103–129 (Cambridge University Press); DOI 10.1017/S0332586521000093

The literature describes Western Armenian as contrasting voiceless aspirated with voiced stops, but since no monolingual Western Armenian community exists, every speaker is a bilingual in a minority-language setting. The study compares two heritage communities: Beirut, where the majority language is Arabic, and the US, where it is English. Lebanese speakers contrast voiced with voiceless unaspirated stops, matching Lebanese Arabic. US speakers were more variable: some showed the English pattern, others kept aspirated voiceless stops but varied within the voiced series. The authors read this as transfer from the majority language in both communities, producing two divergent voicing systems inside one heritage language.

Western Armenian heritage language bilingualism phonetics language transfer

English

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"How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?": A Study of Eastern Armenian Heritage Language Speakers in Los Angeles

Karapetian, Shushan, 2014

PhD dissertation, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles; eScholarship. Winner, Society for Armenian Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award

Introduces Armenian, specifically Eastern Armenian in Los Angeles, into the landscape of heritage languages in the United States, filling a gap in both heritage-language research and Armenian studies. It assesses the linguistic landscape of Armenians in Los Angeles, including the presence and use of the language and the visible signs of its loss, then examines incomplete acquisition among heritage speakers across phonology, morphology, register, and English borrowings, proposing domains of linguistic compartmentalization to describe patterns of use. A central finding concerns the persistent anxiety attached to speaking the heritage language and the damaging cycle that anxiety produces. The study closes on the inconsistent attitudes and beliefs surrounding Armenian, analyzed through competing majority and minority language ideologies. Data come from a corpus of in-depth interviews with college-age Eastern Armenian heritage learners.

heritage language language maintenance Armenian-American Los Angeles language ideology

English

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