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[man]

http://youtu.be/buoWm8BUH7M
This has been posted just this Nov.18. You have never seen a get-talent show like this...because at the end all Armenians join in -do not miss the end. The 12 year old boy's name is Aram Abkazian, the lady in green is his mother. "DA" in Russian means "YES" and "SPASIVA" means "THANKS YOU"

[Nvard]

spasiBO

[Armenak]

His name is actually Aram Avedikian, not Abkazian.

The Armenians in Abkhazia and some of the older Armenian communities in the North Caucasus were Western Armenian speakers (notice how the boy's surname is Avedikian) even though they have been instructed in standard Eastern Armenian or become monolingual in Russian since the Soviet period.

See this study by the Abkhaz linguist Viacheslav Chirikba. He says the Abkhaz Armenians' Hamshen dialect is slowly dying out.