Mush dialect

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Mush dialect
Mush
Մշոյ բարբառ
Native to
Armenian people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 3,000[citation needed])
Glottologmuss1244
Classification des dialectes arméniens)[1]

Mush dialect (

Samtskhe-Javakheti province of Georgia
.

Area spoken

According to

Hrachia Adjarian in the early 20th century, the Mush dialect was spoken in the cities of Bitlis, Xizan (Hizan), Khlat (Xlat), Arjesh, Bulanikh, Manazkert, Khnus (Xnus), and Alashkert. The dialect was spread to the west of Lake Van.[2]

During the

Russo-Turkish War of (1877–78), Armenians from Mush and Alashkert established villages in the Erivan Governorate: in Aparan and south of Novo-Bayazit (present-day Gavar). According to Adjarian there were 21 Armenian villages in the Erivan Governorate where the Mush dialect was spoken. Another group of Armenians from Khnus settled near Akhalkalaki, particularly in three villages: Heshtia, Toria and Ujmana.[2][3]

According to a 1955 article the Mush dialect was spoken in villages located in the following districts (raion) of Soviet Armenia: Talin, Aparan, Artik, Aghin, Ejmiatsin, and Martuni.[4]

One notable village in Armenia where the dialect is still spoken is Kamo in the northwestern Shirak Province.[5][6]

Notable speakers

Songs in Mush dialect

References

Notes
  1. ^ Adjarian 1909, pp. 44–45.
  2. ^ a b Adjarian 1909, p. 48.
  3. ^ Simavoryan, Arestakes (21 May 2009). "Ախալքալաքի և Նինոծմինդայի հայ կաթոլիկ համայնքների խնդիրները [Problems of the Catholic Armenian communities in Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda districts]" (in Armenian). Noravank Foundation. Միավորող է նաև լեզվի գործոնը՝ Մշո բարբառը...
  4. ^ Baghdasarian 1955, p. 69.
  5. ^ "Կամո [Kamo]". shirak.mtaes.am (in Armenian). Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of Republic of Armenia. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25. Բնակչությունը հիմնականում հայեր են և խոսում են մշո բարբառով:
  6. Hetq Online (in Armenian). 28 April 2011. Archived from the original
    on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015. Բնակչության շրջանում գերիշխում է Մշո բարբառը:
  7. ISBN 9780814332214
    .
  8. ^ YouTube video of William Saroyan's visit to Soviet Armenia in the 1970s. He clearly speaks the Mush dialect.
Bibliography
Further reading
  • Patkanov, Kerovbe (1875). Mushkii dialekt [Dialect of Mush] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences. — includes folklore genres in Mush dialect
  • Mseriants, Levon [in Russian] (1897). Этюды по армянской диалектологии (in Russian). Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Classification des dialectes arméniens
    (in French). Paris: Librairie Honore Champion.
  • Baghdasarian-Tapaltsian, S. H. (1958). Msho barbare [The Dialect of Mush] (in Armenian). Yerevan: Armenian National Academy of Sciences. — a wide study on the dialect, includes 15 stories, 710 proverbs, sayings, blessings
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