Akn dialect

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Akn
Ակնա բարբառ Aknay barpar
Native to	Turkey
Region	Akn (now known as Kemaliye) and surrounding villages
Ethnicity	Armenians
Native speakers	(undated figure of 0~[citation needed])
Language family	Indo-European Armenian Western Akn
Writing system	Armenian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Western Armenian [hyw])
Glottolog	aknn1239
Akn

Akn (Armenian: Ակնա բարբառ, transliterated: Aknay barpar) is a regional variety of the Armenian language historically spoken in and around the town of Akn (modern-day Kemaliye, Turkey) and its neighboring Armenian villages. It is part of the Western Armenian dialectal group, but it is distinguished by unique phonetic, grammatical, and lexical features that set it apart from other Western Armenian dialects.