LAist

Western Armenian Is An Endangered Language. A New Generation In LA Is Learning It

For diasporan Armenians like myself, the third generation born in the U.S. whose families were from the Ottoman Empire, our heritage language is almost like slang we heard thrown in the middle of ...
Asbarez

It Takes a Diaspora to Raise a Language: Future Directions for Armenian

The USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies, in partnership with the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, is pleased to announce the full program of "It Takes a ...
Daily Sundial

ASP celebrates 40-year anniversary of first Armenian language course

This year marks 40 years since the first Armenian language course at CSUN was offered. Today, the Armenian Studies Program (ASP) offers 10 courses. CSUN is home to the largest Armenian student ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: Armenian is my first language. What happens if I can longer speak it?

I knew Armenian, my first language, before I knew anything else. I knew the language before I discovered my hobbies and passions. I knew the language before I knew how to do simple addition and ...
Daily Trojan

USC hosts lecture on fate of Armenian language

Jennifer Manoukian, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, said Armenians still long to preserve their language because they share the belief that if they lose their language, they lose ...