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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