Mush dialect
| Mush | |
|---|---|
| Մշոյ բարբառ | |
| Native to | Georgia, Armenia |
| Ethnicity | Armenians |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 3,000) |
| Armenian alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included in Western Armenian [hyw]) |
| Glottolog | muss1244 |
The area where the Mush dialect was spoken before the Armenian genocide (according to Hrachia Adjarian's 1909 book Classification des dialectes arméniens) | |
The 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.