Homshetsi / Homshetsma
Հոմշեցի / Հոմշեցմա
Spoken in	Russia, Turkey, Georgia (Abkhazia), Armenia, and Central Asia.
Total speakers	—
Language family	Indo-European Armenian Western Armenian Homshetsi / Homshetsma
Writing system	Armenian alphabet, modified Turkish alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–
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v • d • e History of the Armenian language see also: Armenian alphabet Armenian hypothesis Proto-Armenian Graeco-Armenian / Helleno-Armenian Old Armenian (from 405) Middle Armenian (c. 1100 – 1700) Modern Armenian (c. 1700 – present) Eastern, Western familliar: Homshetsi, Lomavren

Homshetsi (Հոմշեցի) or Homshetsi lizu ("the Hamshen language") is an archaic Western Armenian dialect spoken by the Eastern group and the Northern group of Hamshenis. It is practically a dialect and mutually intelligible with Armenian. However, due to its speakers' distinct profile, it is widely regarded as an "ethnic language". It is not a written language and a slightly modified Turkish alphabet in Turkey and Armenian alphabet (by Christian immigrants from Hamshen who refer to the language as Homshetsma (Հոմշեցմա)) in Russia and Abkhazia are used for limited purposes. A sub-dialect is spoken in Eşmekaya (Ardala) village in Hopa.

[edit] External links

• "Hemshinli: The Forgotten Black Sea Armenians" by Bert Vaux
• "Ethnographic Materials from the Muslim Hemshinli" Various samples of Homshetsi
• Gertak (We Are Going), a poem in Homshetsi, with Turkish translation from the website Voice of Hopa