Table 2 shows that immigrant households have high levels of speaking Armenian at home (91% among immigrants from Iran, 90% from Armenia, and 78% from the Middle East).
On the other hand, 67% of Armenians born in the United States speak English at home. Only 19% of US-born Armenians speak Armenian at home, and are most likely members of immigrant households or second generation. The decline of at home usage of the language contributes to the daunting obstacles activists for the survival of Western Armenian in the United States have to overcome.
(And eastern)
LSS: Armenian spoken at home goes from 90% to 19% within 1-2 generations.
A lot of people do not understand this and are of the opinion that most Armenians in the US are speaking Armenian. That is unfortunately not the case.
Spoken at home is also a considerably less strict and easily to attain measure than intermediate or full fluency.
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Table 2 shows that immigrant households have high levels of speaking Armenian at home (91% among immigrants from Iran, 90% from Armenia, and 78% from the Middle East).
On the other hand, 67% of Armenians born in the United States speak English at home. Only 19% of US-born Armenians speak Armenian at home, and are most likely members of immigrant households or second generation. The decline of at home usage of the language contributes to the daunting obstacles activists for the survival of Western Armenian in the United States have to overcome.
(And eastern)
LSS: Armenian spoken at home goes from 90% to 19% within 1-2 generations.
A lot of people do not understand this and are of the opinion that most Armenians in the US are speaking Armenian. That is unfortunately not the case.
Spoken at home is also a considerably less strict and easily to attain measure than intermediate or full fluency.