西亞美尼亞語

西亞美尼亞語（classical armenian orthography：արեւմտահայերէն，轉寫：arevmdahayerēn）屬於印歐語系，是亞美尼亞語的兩種標準語之一，另一種是東亞美尼亞語。西亞美尼亞語主要基於伊斯坦布爾方言，而東亞美尼亞語則主要基於埃裡溫方言。
直到20世紀初，奧斯曼帝國境內依舊有人使用西亞美尼亞語，特別是西亞美尼亞地區。當時大部分Armenians in Turkey將西亞美尼亞語作為主要使用的語言。西亞美尼亞語隨著亞美尼亞種族大屠殺而導致使用人口大為縮減。而逃到亞美尼亞的Armenians in Turkey則使用東亞美尼亞語。而目前赫姆辛人、敘利亞拉塔基亞、吉斯爾舒古爾和Kessab、黎巴嫩安傑爾和土耳其Vakıflı, Samandağ等地方和民族依舊在使用西亞美尼亞語。
亞美尼亞北部久姆裡、Akhuryan、Artik和希拉剋州的130個村莊以及格魯吉亞的阿哈爾卡拉基和阿哈爾齊赫也有數十萬人口使用西亞美尼亞語。
在土耳其，只有一小部分Armenians in Turkey將西亞美尼亞語作為第一語言。
由於亞美尼亞大屠殺以及其他歷史原因，西亞美尼亞語目前主要是一種diaspora language，也沒有國家將其列為官方語言，因此西亞美尼亞語使用者面臨著被東道國主要語言同化的壓力並面臨瀕危狀態。據估計，亞美尼亞和格魯吉亞以外的能流利使用西亞美尼亞語的人數不到一百萬。
2009年2月21日，當天是國際母語日，聯合國教科文組織出版了新版《世界瀕危語言地圖集》，其中土耳其的西亞美尼亞語被定義為瀕危語言。

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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 
西亞美尼亞語在線字典-  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).