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text. Its vocabulary has been heavily



                                                                                                                                         influenced by Western Middle




                                                                                                                                         Iranian languages, particularly



                                                                                                                                         Parthian, and to a lesser extent by



                                                                                                                                         Greek, Latin, Old French, Persian,




                                                                                                                                         Arabic, Turkish, and other languages



                                                                                                                                         throughout its history. There are




            alphabet to write poems in Azeri,                                                                                            two standardized modern literary



            and it was also the official script for                                                                                      forms,  Eastern  Armenian  and



            Kurdish in Soviet Armenia from                                                                                               Western Armenian, with which most




            1921-1928.                                                                                                                   contemporary dialects are mutually



            Armenian  has a long literary                                                                                                intelligible. The divergent and




            history, with a fifth-century Bible                                                                                          almost extinct Lomavren language



            translation as its oldest surviving                                                                                          is a Romani-influenced dialect
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