西亚美尼亚语

西亚美尼亚语（classical armenian orthography：արեւմտահայերէն，转写：arevmdahayerēn）属于印欧语系，是亚美尼亚语的两种标准语之一，另一种是东亚美尼亚语。西亚美尼亚语主要基于伊斯坦布尔方言，而东亚美尼亚语则主要基于埃里温方言。
直到20世纪初，奥斯曼帝国境内依旧有人使用西亚美尼亚语，特别是西亚美尼亚地区。当时大部分Armenians in Turkey将西亚美尼亚语作为主要使用的语言。西亚美尼亚语随着亚美尼亚种族大屠杀而导致使用人口大为缩减。而逃到亚美尼亚的Armenians in Turkey则使用东亚美尼亚语。而目前赫姆辛人、叙利亚拉塔基亚、吉斯尔舒古尔和Kessab、黎巴嫩安杰尔和土耳其Vakıflı, Samandağ等地方和民族依旧在使用西亚美尼亚语。
亚美尼亚北部久姆里、Akhuryan、Artik和希拉克州的130个村庄以及格鲁吉亚的阿哈尔卡拉基和阿哈尔齐赫也有数十万人口使用西亚美尼亚语。
在土耳其，只有一小部分Armenians in Turkey将西亚美尼亚语作为第一语言。
由于亚美尼亚大屠杀以及其他历史原因，西亚美尼亚语目前主要是一种diaspora language，也没有国家将其列为官方语言，因此西亚美尼亚语使用者面临着被东道国主要语言同化的压力并面临濒危状态。据估计，亚美尼亚和格鲁吉亚以外的能流利使用西亚美尼亚语的人数不到一百万。
2009年2月21日，当天是国际母语日，联合国教科文组织出版了新版《世界濒危语言地图集》，其中土耳其的西亚美尼亚语被定义为濒危语言。

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  Arak29 Eastern Armeniandate=20191226082853 -  Arak29 Western Armeniandate=20200209033639 -  Arak29 A Course in Modern Western Armenia-  Arak29 On-Line Dictionariesdate=20170510205819 -  Arak29 Etymology-  Videos of people speaking Armeniandate=20120222134159 
西亚美尼亚语在线字典-  Nayiri.comdate=20200221175815  (Library of Armenian dictionaries):
**  Բառգիրք հայերէն լեզուիdate=20200130163224  by Rev. Antranig Granian (about 18,000 terms; published in 1998 in Beirut). Great dictionary for students.
**  ՀԱՅՈՑ ԼԵԶՈՒԻ ՆՈՐ ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆdate=20200226101143  published in two volumes in Beirut in 1992 (about 56,000 headwords). Arguably the best Western Armenian dictionary currently available.
**  ՀԱՅԵՐԷՆ ԲԱՑԱՏՐԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆdate=20200226095450  by Stepan Malkhasiants (about 130,000 entries). One of the definitive Armenian dictionaries. (Definitions are in Eastern Armenian, but include Western Armenian meanings of headwords.)
**  ՀԱՅԵՐԷՆ ԱՐՄԱՏԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆdate=20200226102834  by Hrachia Acharian (5,062 word roots). The definitive study of the history and origins of word roots in Armenian. Also includes explanations of each word root as it is used today. (Explanations are in Eastern Armenian, but root words span the entire Armenian language, including Western Armenian.)
**  Armenian-English dictionarydate=20200131014939  (about 70,000 entries).
**  English-Armenian dictionarydate=20200130114422  (about 96,000 entries).
**  Armenian-French dictionarydate=20200131012103  (about 18,000 entries).
**  French-Armenian dictionarydate=20200130111608  (about 20,000 entries).