Mush dialect
Mush dialect (Armenian: Մշոյ բարբառ, Mšo barbař) is a Western Armenian dialect formerly spoken in the city of Mush (Muş) and the historic region of Taron, in present-day eastern Turkey. As a result of the extermination of the native Armenian population during the genocide of 1915, the dialect is almost completely extinct today with only several thousand native speakers in a number of villages in Armenia and three Armenian-populated villages in the Samtskhe-Javakheti province of Georgia.
| Mush dialect | |
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| Mush | |
| Մշոյ բարբառ | |
| Native to | Georgia, Armenia |
| Ethnicity | Armenian people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 3,000) |
Indo-European
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| Armenian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in Western Armenian [hyw]) |
| Glottolog | muss1244 |
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