or over a century, a substantial Armenian community has called New Jersey home, with a particularly large community living across suburban Bergen County. Numerous institutions, including churches and schools like the Hovnanian School in New Milford, serve these communities. Following the early settlement of Western Armenian speakers, including many survivors of the genocide, other waves have come from Lebanon, Iran, and elsewhere, all with distinct communities speaking particular Armenian varieties such as the Dikranagerdtsi dialect from what is today Diarbekr/Diyarbakır in eastern Turkey. Many Dikranagerdtsi Armenians settled in Union City and continued to speak and create in the language, including Fort Lee-based singer Onnik Dinkjian and writer Charles Kasbarian in Teaneck, who published the Dikranagerdtsi Vernacular Handbook.