Unlike the traditional division of Armenian into two dialects ( Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian ) , he divided Armenian into three main dialects based on the present and imperfect indicative particles that were used . He called as the - owm ( - ում ) dialects , - gë ( - կը ) dialects , and - el ( - ել ) dialects . The three major dialects were further divided into subdialects . The book is one of the few reliable sources of Armenian dialects that existed at the time . After the Armenian Genocide , linguists Gevorg Jahukyan , Jos Weitenberg , Bert Vaux and Hrach Martirosyan have extended the understanding of Armenian dialects
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Classification des dialectes arméniens