Re: Armenian (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes, part 3)

Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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Such an anecdote isn’t sufficient, which is why I was asked by the Western Armenians to help get an ISO 639 language code so that Western Armenians could actually USE a Wikipedia in a language they understood.

I attach here the proposal, which demonstrates quite clearly that in all respects the two Armenians are not one.



> On 1 Mar 2018, at 16:03, Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Just spoke to a colleague who is a native Western Armenian. She said that while it sounds strange at first, she adjusted to it in a few days. Afterwards there were occasional loan-words from Russian that she didn't understand, but those with her always knew the western equivalent, and just rephrased.
> 
> That really sounds like the proximity is in the realm of separate dialect rather than separate language.
> 
> Mark

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