Mush dialect

Mush dialect
Mush dialect
Mush
Մշոյ բարբառ
Native to	Georgia, Armenia
Ethnicity	Armenian people
Native speakers	(undated figure of 3,000[citation needed])
Language family	Indo-European Armenian Western Armenian Mush dialect; ; ;
Writing system	Armenian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in Western Armenian [hyw])
Glottolog	muss1244

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.

^ Adjarian 1909, pp. 44–45.

[FOOTNOTEAdjarian190944–45-1] Adjarian 1909, pp. 44–45.

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