Armenian, Western
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"A language of Armenia" or "A language of Lebanon"?
dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2022-03-13 01:57
Regarding:
LocationISO 639-3:
hywAccording to Wikipedia: "Western Armenian is spoken by Armenians of most of the Middle East except for Iran, and Rostov-on-Don in Russia." and "The only Western Armenian dialect still spoken in Western Armenia is the Homshetsi dialect,": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
If this is true then the number of speakers in Armenia should be set to ~150k and the language should be a "language of Lebanon" with 336,000 speakers
Editorial Action
We will shift the hub country for Western Armenian [hyw] from Armenia to Turkey, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.