BY GAREN YEGPARIAN
I’m no anthropologist, historian, linguist, or sociologist. I do know how to watch and listen, and have for over four decades (and longer if you count grandmother stories). So, I’m going to allow myself to size up the status of our spoken Armenian language, or at least describe how I see we’ve gotten to where we are today, in an EXTREMELY compact, probably oversimplified, package.
From the time Armenians, as such, came into existence, anywhere from three to five thousand years ago, depending on who you ask, we spoke our language. Sure, it was Urartian, and other proto-Armenians’ languages, at first. But it gelled into what we now know as crapar (grabar), Classical Armenian.
With the adoption of Christianity, we are told, the need to write in our own alphabet arose and Gregory had his “vision”
