Armenian Language Dilemma Draws Positive Feedback

Ten-year-old Meline Almasian doesn’t have the perfect remedy to saving the Armenian language from extinction in America. But she does offer a solution on how to preserve the Mother Tongue and keep it solvent: “Go to church, hear the language spoken, and treat it like a learning lesson,” she says. “If any language dies, it’s only because people let it die. It’s up to all of us to keep the language alive—young and old.”

Is Armenian Language Dying a Slow Death in America?

As an Armenian School instructor over the past 40 years at my church, I’ve come to the sobering realization that our language is beginning to slowly dissipate.

Sad to admit, today’s students don’t appear to gravitate toward the mother tongue. They would prefer to see their class time devoted to more “interesting” subjects like Hai Tahd, current events, genocide education, and the country itself.