r/hayeren • u/Srslyredit • 22d ago

Is the Gyumri dialect considered Eastern or Western Armenian? And why?

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u/counwovja0385skje 22d ago

It's a western dialect but been influenced by Eastern due to being in Armenia. To me it honestly sounds like a cross between the two. I have zero trouble understanding it, but I don't know how to reproduce it myself because I don't know whether to make it sound more western or eastern, and in what departments (verb conjugations, noun cases, etc)

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u/ConcussionFlare 22d ago

It has western elements and is easier for me to understand as a western speaker but not exactly what you hear in the diaspora. Reason AFAIK is that a lot of Ottoman Armenians who fled east during the genocide to the Russian Empire ended up in Alexandropol (now called Gyumri). 

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u/surenk6 22d ago

As far as I know it's the western dialect of Mush with lots of Gyumretsis being refugees from Mush during the genocide.