Topic: Armenian Language
YEREVAN — In 2018, Hayk Hovakimyan founded Tumanyan.Online as a resource for Russian-speaking Armenians to learn their mother tongue. This mission reflected his own experience as an Armenian born in Yerevan but raised in Moscow. Living[...]
PASADENA, Calif. (ColoradoBoulevard.net) —The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) is not only celebrating Armenian independence this week , they are celebrating the creation of exemplary Armenian world language programs. It has been[...]
By Elise Antreassian Special to the Mirror-Spectator NEW YORK — In 2010, UNESCO declared Western Armenian an endangered language, which, by their definition, was a language likely to become extinct in the near future because its speakers[...]
VENICE — For more than 30 years, the Padus-Araxes Cultural Association has organized an intensive summer course of Armenian in Venice, Italy. This program is open to individuals who are over 18 and interested in learning or improving in[...]
YEREVAN/YABLONOVSKY, Russia — Few people in Armenia know Russian linguist and translator Alexey Lyubimov, despite his close ties with Armenia and the Armenian language. Recently, Vadim Arutyunov’s interview with him was posted on the[...]
YEREVAN — I first met Shi Xingyu in 2019 at the Yeghishe Charents House-Museum in Yerevan, where she presented her paper, “Charents in Chinese,” at the “Charents and His Time” conference. In fluent Armenian Xingyu presented the[...]
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/CAMBRIDGE — Katherine Hodgson is a British linguist whose main subject of research is Armenian and its dialects. She spent four years living in Armenia, conducting linguistic[...]
Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/LONDON — Vaughan (Vahan) Pilikian was born in London to an American mother and Armenian father. After studies in classical languages, fine art and filmmaking at the universities[...]