Department of Dialectology

In the Department of Dialectology (head of Department - Victor Katvalyan - PhD)  the " Armenian Dialectological Dictionary" is compiled, edited and published (7 volumes). The databases of lexical-semantic and lexical isoglosses of Armenian dialects are compiling, in which will be presented these phonetic and lexical generalities of Armenian dialects through which dialects and sub-dialects belonging  to different dialect groups exhibit common linguistic features. The works on the registration of new dialectological materials for compiling the dialectological atlas of Armenian are also conducting. The vocabulary of Armenian dialects is analyzing according to the lexical-semantic groups and the phonetic and grammatical features of dialects.

The department employs are 15 researchers, including:  1 – Dphil, 10 - PhD, 1 - candidate of technical sciences.