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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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