Shabin-Karahisar dialect
The Shabin-Karahisar dialect was a Western Armenian dialect that was spoken in the province of Şebinkarahisar and around the vicinity of Akıncılar, the region was in antiquity part of the Kelkit plains and was part of the Roman province of Colonia in Armenia. Referred to as Koghonya by Armenians in the Middle Ages during the rule of the Eretnids. Passing to Ottoman rule, the dialect developed under the influence of the Constantinople dialect. Dialect features. Hrachia Acharian described the dialect being similar in accent and tone to the neighboring Armenian dialects of Sivas and Tokat. The  dialect had a mutation where the letter ո(o) for most words was pronounced as էո(ēo). So the word Gortz(work) was pronounced Gēortz. The letter ե(e) for most words was pronounced with an ի(ee) sound, so Tegh(place) was pronounced digh, Kez(your) as Kiz, Het'(with) as Hid, these mutations he compares to the Hamshen dialect which has the same features.