LAist

Western Armenian Is An Endangered Language. A New Generation In LA Is Learning It

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. For diasporan Armenians like myself, the third generation born in the U.S. whose families were from the Ottoman ...
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

USC Hosts ‘It Takes a Diaspora to Raise a Language’ Conference on Western Armenian

The conference It Takes a Diaspora to Raise a Language: Future Directions for Western Armenian, organized by the University ...
Asbarez

USC Hosts Conference on Sustaining Armenian Language in the Diaspora

From February 27 to March 1, scholars, practitioners and community members gathered at USC for a three-day interdisciplinary ...
Malay Mail

With fewer than 100,000 speakers, Western Armenian community keeps language going with concerts, workshops and film screenings

Once spoken by two million people across the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Armenian has shrunk to the point of becoming an ...
Asbarez

A Meaningful Day of Connection as Mesrobian School Visits Ari Guiragos Minassian

Ari Guiragos Minassian Armenian School welcomed students from Mesrobian School for a special day of connection, culture, and ...
Daily Trojan

USC hosts lecture on fate of Armenian language

Jennifer Manoukian, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, said Armenians still long to preserve their language because they share the belief that if they lose their language, they lose ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: Armenian is my first language. What happens if I can longer speak it?

I knew Armenian, my first language, before I knew anything else. I knew the language before I discovered my hobbies and passions. I knew the language before I knew how to do simple addition and ...
UNHCR

An Iraqi Armenian teen shows the way to a new life

YEREVAN, Armenia, October 30 (UNHCR) - Mariam Sargis has spent most of her life in Iraq, but the teenager is now getting an unexpected chance to discover the land and language of her ancestors. And ...