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title: 'A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian but Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Languages'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Elias Riggs'
date: 1847-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Dictionary, Grammar, and Foreign Languages'
- 'Language'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 11'
- 'Psalms 119'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/riggs-1847-a-vocabulary-of-words-used-in-modern-armenian-but-not-found-in-the-ancient-armenian-languages
---

# A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian but Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Languages

E. Riggs' 1847 Smyrna vocabulary: 6,000+ modern Armenian words absent from ancient lexicons, with notes on Turkish loans, dialects, usage, and grammatical forms.

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