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be used as a literary language until Empires. Wester n Ar menian
the late 19th century. developed among Armenians who
had moved to Constantinople, while
The Armenian used between about Eastern Armenian developed among
the 11th and 15th century is known Armenians living in Tbilisi in
as Middle Armenian and contains Georgia. Many newspapers in each
more loanwords from Arabic, of the variants were published and
Turkish, Persian, and Latin. many schools for each variety were
set up. This resulted in widespread
The two main modern forms of literacy and to an increase in the
Armenian emerged during the amount of literature written in
19th century when the traditional modern Armenian, rather than in the
Armenian homeland was divided classical language.
between the Russian and Ottoman
