Jovhannes Chimishk

I know about the relocations made by the greeks, and it is true that many of those people were "hellenized" before the ottoman era....... But the truth is that the christian population of Anatolia consisted mainly of armenians and greek but there were also other lesser grups (although very small in numbers)...... the galatians was one of them.... by the way very "armenized". Btw: my granma told me something in the old Gurin language: inch davidis? (inchpes es?)

Arabs didnt like Armenia because of it climate conditions...... so they basically went in and out of the country (that was like "the heaven" for the naxarars)..... the problem were the turks and kurds.....

A lot armenians converted to islam...... and I seriosly doubt that any arab converted from islam to christian..... At that time (and during the turco-tartar invasions) the muslim had it a lot easier than christian..... thats why many "weaker" armenians converted to islam. Like it or not those are the turks and kurds of today (mixed with arabs, persians, and tartars). In that time (and during the genocide) it was "easier" to become a muslim and to adopt the turkish language

I have heard of many armenians in Syria that couldnt speak a word of armenian..... They only sopke turkish..... Now it comes the cuestion... were they realy amrenians?..... As I know there were many other "minorities" in Anatolia at that time..... some of them were also ortodox christians..... So, being the armenians the largest of those minorities these people could have felt somehow related to them..... I have read of "galatians" living in the area around Angora (Ankara) even in the time of the genocide..... They spoke a language closely related to armenian (almost a dialect) and were ortodox christians..... Before the turks came to Anatolia this was one of the most ethnicaly diverse regions of the world...... what happend later to these people?

Thank you Gor-Gor for the information...... I didn´t know that "official" western armenian was based on the dialect of Bolis...... I know that dialect are normal in almost every language but in the western armenian case is a little more complicated. My grandmother, for example, she used to say that when she came to Aleppo, she coudn't understand other armenians. The way I see it, there were several "languages", all of them belonging to the same root, the "old armenian", but somewhat diferent. It´s a shame that all that diversity has been lost because of the genocide. Btw: there were also cultural diferences within the regions, that is what I wanted to learn.

First of all I would like to introduce myself. I have been reading you posts until I finaly decided to write and become parto of this family. I am an Armenian from Venezuela, and my family is from Gurin or Gurun, in central Anatolia. I would like to know about the cultural diversity in Western Armenian before the genocide, I am not talking about beirucis or halapcis, I am talking about the cultural diferences between an armenian from Sivas, from Van, from Giligia. I have heard that existed languague diferences, I would like to know why is that. Thanks for you attention