Hemşince

In a small number of villages in the Artvin Province of Turkey a language, in addition to Turkish, is spoken, to which its speakers, the Hopa Hemşinli, refer to as “Hemşince” in Turkish or “Homshetsma” in the mentioned language. [Blaesing in "The Hemshin" 2007 edited by Simonian] This language contains many Turkish and Laz lexical items and is treated as a dialect of western Armenian.Hemşince and Armenian are mutually not intelligible. [Vaux in "The Hemshin" 2007 edited by Simonian]

References

* Bert Vaux, " [http://www.uwm.edu/~vaux/hamshen.pdf Hemshinli: The Forgotten Black Sea Armenians] ", Harvard University, 2001.