FAMOUS LINGUIST AND ETHNOGAPHER VERJINE SVAZLIAN AWARDED "GREAT MIND OF THE 21st CENTURY" TITLE
Noyan Tapan
Oc t 8, 2008
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The famous linguist of the American
Biographical Institute, ethnographer, expert in Western Armenian verbal
culture, Doctor of Philology, Professor Verjine Svazlian (the Institute
of Archeology and Enthography of the RA National Academy of Sciences
(NAS) has been awarded a title "Great Mind of the 21st Century" and a
gold medal for her works presenting the Armenian culture to the world,
NT was informed by the RA NAS press service.
V. Svazlian is the author of more than 200 works. Over 55 years, on
her own initiative she wrote, recorded, filmed, studied and published
evidence (in various dialects) of the Armenian Genocide survivors who
were forcibly deported from over 100 places in historical Armenia, as
well as their songs of historical nature (in Armenian and Turkish),
thus saving them and presenting the collective historical memory of
the Armenian people in various languages to the world.
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