Language

Արեւմտահայերէն

Western Armenian
  • Global speakers: 3,843,000
  • Glottocode: arme1241
  • ISO 639-3: hye
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Several waves of Western Armenian speakers, often highly multilingual, have arrived in New York City over the course of the 20th century. Many of the earliest migrants fled destitution and genocide in the Ottoman Empire, in what is today Turkey, and arrived via third countries, including Bulgarian-Armenians from Bulgaria; some 5,000 Romanian-Armenians (largely from Bucharest) who settled in Sunnyside thanks to the Displaced Persons Act; Lebanese Armenians fleeing the country's civil war; Armenians from Iran who arrived after the 1979 Revolution (though most went to LA).
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Chelsea
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  • Murray Hill
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