Western Armenian literature is usually perceived as what was written in Constantinople. But much of that literature does not portray the life of Armenians living in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire – the Armenian homeland. As such, that literature rarely reflects the issues Armenians were facing leading up to the Genocide. There were […]
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All rules taken from: *All rules have been taken from: Modern Western Armenian For The English-speaking World by Dora Sakayan ↱ ա, այ Polysyllabic words ending in ա are written with այ Exceptions: Certain words: հիմա, ահա, հապա, ապա, ասիկա, սա, ատիկա, անիկա, մամա, պապա Proper nouns: Արա, Էլենա Foreign words: Սոտա, աղա Single imperative: Կարդա՛, […]
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Traditional Orthography: Ր vs Ռ
There are few words that start with either. However, the most common start with ռ: ռետին ռազմիկ ռումբ ռոճիկ There are fewer words starting with ր: րոպէ րոպէական Րաֆֆի Within words ռ is usually written before ն: առնել դառնալ բռնել սպառնալ Exceptions: կրնալ գարնան գարուն Before consonants other than ն, the letter ր is normally […]
Title: The Ideology of Armenian Liberation: The Development of Armenian Political Thought Before the Revolutionary Movement (1639-1885) Author: Gerard Libaridian, former senior advisor to the first president of the Republic of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and also held the Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. About the piece: PhD […]
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Introduction
My name is Nora Bairamian and I am a PhD student at UCLA in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Fall of 2020. I have received Master’s degrees from Columbia University and UCI from Middle Eastern Studies and history, respectfully. My first foray into blogging covered some of my experiences after […]