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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Armenian language being taught intensively in Azerbaijan

Panorama, Armenia
Oct 29 2021
EDUCATION 14:21 29/10/2021 REGION

More and more people in Azerbaijan are expressing a desire to learn the Armenian language after the 44-day war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2020.

Students of the Armenian language course are mostly employees of the State Security Service, diplomats, journalists and economists, Sputnik Azerbaijan reports.

Husein Askerov, a lecturer at the Chair of the Caucasus Studies of the Azerbaijani University of Languages, says he does not have “enough time and energy” to enroll everyone who wants to study Armenian.

Sometimes classes have to be held late in the evening, Askerov said, adding they are usually held remotely.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS