YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), June 10 — “The president of Armenia has a positive attitude towards the idea of establishing private schools in Armenia in accordance with internationally accepted standards,” said Armen Arzumanyan, the president’s press secretary. The government’s bill concerning the amendments to the Armenian laws “About Language” and “About Education” which envision the establishment of [...]

Since the government announced in April its intention to modify the current law on language in order to accommodate the opening of foreign language schools in Armenia, several politicians, journalists and public service groups have been in an uproar. The decision primarily stems from the planned opening of a new private school in 2013 situated [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL), May 27–Armenia’s education minister said on Wednesday that a redrafted government bill allowing a limited number of schools in Armenia to teach in a foreign language is due to be submitted to parliament for approval soon. Armen Ashotian said the government had taken into account the criticism expressed by a number of politicians [...]

YEREVAN (Tert.am), May 20–Internet search engine giant Google has included Armenian in its translation system, Google Translate. This means that with a click of a mouse an Internet user will be able to translate any supported language on a Web page into Armenian. The service is offered in its “alpha” stage, however, meaning that refinements will be [...]

YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net), February 19– A new multilingual online translator was presented Friday at the residence of Armenian President Serge Sarkisian. The web-based tool enables translations between Western and Eastern Armenian languages, and English. The president stressed the need to provide state assistance for the further development of the online tool. “Since the preservation of the Armenian identity [...]

YEREVAN (Newsarmenia.ru), February 17 —The ceremony to celebrate the day of the mother language was held near the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan. Organizers of the event are the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Board of Education Hall of Yerevan. “We have announced this year to be the year of the native language, [...]

YEREVAN (ARKA), February 3–In Armenia, with the participation of specialists of the Armenian language, a computer program that performs translation from the Eastern Armenian dialect to Western Armenian has been developed, the Minister for Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan informed. “At the base program there are approximately 40,000 processed words, and now with a touch of a [...]