YEREVAN. – Amendments pursuant to the requirements of the new Constitution need to be made in the Law on Language, to preserve and evolve Armenian.

Head of the State Language Inspectorate of Armenia, Sergo Yeritsyan, sated the aforementioned at a press conference on Saturday.

In his words, there is a need to establish a state-run agency that will not be engaged in language oversight, but rather in structural challenges.

“The Language Inspectorate is  a body that oversees, bit it can’t deal with structural problems,” Yeritsyan said. “We need to help so that our language constantly evolves.” 

He noted that it is indispensable to preserve the two branches of the Armenian language—the Eastern Armenian and the Western Armenian.

“There are problems linked to the preservation of Western Armenian,” Sergo Yeritsyan added. “These two branches, which we [i.e. Armenians] need to be able to preserve, are our two great accomplishments.”