Talk:Armenian diaspora

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The German wikipedia has a fairly decent article about Armenians in Central Europe (de:Armenier in Europa), it would be a good idea to translate it into English (and per haps breaking into several articles about the diffrent countries, thus starting basic stubs). Unfortunatley my German is only passive and not fluent enough for the task, but if anyone feels up to it. --212.76.33.116 22:07, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Source for the statement

The BBC article linked for the 8 million figure does not specify its source either, so it does not really constitute a reference. If you simply add-up the number of Armenians outside Armenia based on the numbers on this page, it is nowhere near 8 million. Any ideas about what happened to the missing 4 million Armenians? I think they don't exist - the estimates are completely wrong. The real size of the Armenian Diaspora is around 3.5 million. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.14.155 (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Armenians in Argentina

Does anyone have/know any information about the Armenian Diaspora in Argentina? I've heard there are alot of Armenians there and they are quite a vibrant community, please add if you have any info. Fedayee 18:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not too sure but this site states theres about 130,000 Armenians in Argentina. Nareklm 19:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

YES THERE IS A LARGE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY: THERE'RE MANY PROMINENT ARGENTINE-ARMENIANS LIKE NALBANDIAN, THE TENNIS PLAYER, ARSLANIAN, FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE LENCHANTIN SISTERS THAT WERE BORN UNDER THE NAME MERDIROSSIAN, BUT LATER CHANGED THEIR LAST NAME TO THEIR MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME, LENCHANTIN: PAZ LENCHANTIN, ANA LENCHANTIN. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.83.0.133 (talk) 17:35, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Armenian Language (Eastern Armenian & Western Armenian)

I was wondering should we also mention about the different Armenian dialects that Armenians speak (Eastern & Western Armenian)? because of the Armenian Genocide & immigration and all those reasons that certain parts of those regions use Eastern and others use Western. ROOB323 20:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Ummm well in which country each dialect is spoken is mentioned in the Armenian language article ...there's a table on it, but i'm not sure if we should mention it or not. Maybe we could briefly mention and leave a main article link to each dialect or Armenian language. Fedayee 23:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I removed the table from the language article and instead included information about it here. -- Clevelander 00:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay, cool work. Fedayee 00:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice work Clevelander. ROOB323 00:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Armenians in east Asia

The Armenian population on the Armenian diaspora map is very low to measure in Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, but was able to record small Armenian communities in China, South Korea and Thailand.

Somebody needs to visit the Armenian Cemetery in Tokyo, Japan located near what was an Armenian Catholic church in the 1920's and 1930's, but it's believed the majority of Armenians left Japan to avoid other types of persecution ("enemy nationals") in World War II.

I'm unsure the current Armenian population is in Japan, but in Communist China, the governments might closed the once-thrived five centuries-old Armenian churches in the 1950's. The large number of Armenians in Vladivostok, Russia may be where they are now.

Note the Armenian diaspora is one of the world's most dispersed ethnic and religious groups, a similar testiment to the larger and older diasporas of Jews, Assyrians, Roma (Gypsies), Greeks, the Irish, Africans in the Americas, Indians (from India and Pakistan) and east Asians (the Nisei or Japanese who live overseas, and the ethnic Chinese live in globally scattered "Chinatowns").

The majority of present-day Armenians live in the former Soviet republic, however their homeland was five or six times the size of independent Armenia, and they await an official apology from Turkey over the 1910's genocides. + 63.3.14.1 06:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Armenians in Mexico

It's widely known the Armenian community in Mexico is thriving, but there's a lack of population reports, though I've heard the estimated number of Armenians in Mexico are 10,000 and mainly in major cities such as Mexico City, Puebla and Guadalajara. But, some Armenian immigrants entering California, the US are entering from Mexico (Tijuana for example) to join others in their established Armenian communities. Please help me out on the documentation and resources to put down a new article on the Armenians in Mexico. + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 02:32, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Lede needs attention

"The Armenian diaspora is a term used to describe the communities of Armenians living outside of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh..."

Do you mean Armenian citizens living abroad, or people of Armenian ethnicity? I believe it's the latter, but this needs to be specified. --Adoniscik^{(t, c)} 18:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Irish Armenian history on youtube

I thought this youtube video clip described the Irish Armenian community also known as "Irlandahye" or in Irish English the "Hay" often concentrated in the county Connaught and the presence of Armenians in Dublin, the video clip explains the history and culture goes back possibly a 1,000 years for about 6 minutes. There are photos and references to the small paramilitary batallions of "Hay-Saint Patties" made entirely of "Hay" Irish soldiers, they were involved as part of the Irish Republican Army in the Irish rebellions of 1915 to 1921, and now the later generations of "Hay-Saint Patties" are in the Nagorno-Artasac wars in Azerbaijan to thwart Azerbajani troops out of historic Armenian land during the 1990s. The wikipedia article had only listed a scant population of 50 Armenians in Ireland, but failed to mention the estimated 500 to 5,000 "Irlandahyes" around the world are included in the generalized homogeneous "Irish Catholic" or "Celtic" community for being a small but Armenian Catholic population. In Ireland, elders still speak a rare form of Western Armenian language known as the "Hay Irish" dialect contains both Anglo-Celtic and Armenian words, part of the age-old legacy of Armenians and Celts were in contact with each other. + [ url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nsiJU7-0T4&feature=related]