Hi to everybody,thanks for warm greetings.
I,m really glad to join you. Occasionally i found
this forum,i saw that there are a lot of intelligent themes here.
As for the topic i posted i just read in archives of the forum,where
shortly the artsakh dialect was under discussion.There somebody tried
to prove that dialects are different languages.So this motivated me to speak about it.
The difference between armenian dialects is significant.Of course there are common things.
But all in all they differ much, structure,phonetics,lexics -so that in the end one can be very
much confused.It happened only,because they were all developing under different circumstances.
Speaking concretly of artsakh dialect,it,s known as very old ,but it was always under
foreign influence-first Persian,then Russian,then Azeri.So there are lots of borrowings.
But which language is pure? Actually, artsakhi barbar exists without foreign words.My
grandparents were speaking so.
Artsakhi barbar reminds "grakan hayeren" with certain changes.I know a lot of people
from Erevan,which were horrified hearing the speach and not catching anything,but
in a week of staying were able to understang everything.It is easy.
I can make a paralell to German with it,s dialects.Germans speaking high german
don,t understand bavarian german or swiss german,but theoretiacally they can if
they make a little effort.
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P.S.Well, a detailed answer to your question ,VAVA,demands more scientific approach.
I will try to find more info.
