Mush dialect

Mush dialect
Mush
Մշոյ բարբառ
Native toGeorgia, Armenia
EthnicityArmenian people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 3,000[citation needed])
Armenian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Western Armenian [hyw])
Glottologmuss1244
The area where the Mush dialect was spoken before the Armenian genocide (according to Hrachia Adjarian's 1909 book Classification des dialectes arméniens)[1]

Mush dialect (Armenian: Մշոյ բարբառ, Mšo barbař) is a Western Armenian dialect formerly spoken in the city of Mush (Muş) and the historic region of Taron, in present-day eastern Turkey. As a result of the extermination of the native Armenian population during the genocide of 1915, the dialect is almost completely extinct today with only several thousand native speakers in a number of villages in Armenia and three Armenian-populated villages in the Samtskhe-Javakheti province of Georgia.

  1. ^ Adjarian 1909, pp. 44–45.