The town of Kuty was the largest Armenian centre in Poland. Even before World War II, elderly people spoke Armenian and many Armenian customs were preserved. This article is about celebrating Christmas in Kuty.
Among Armenians living in Poland, the town of Kuty was an exception: until the outbreak of World War II, Armenians spoke their dialect, closely related to the West Armenian language. In the late 19th century, J. Hanusz, a Polish linguist spent several weeks in Kuty to study the local language spoken by Armenians. His work has become the research base of this article. It is intended as a review of Polish loanwords identified in the Kuty dialect (on top of Turkish, Kipchak, Russian and other loanwords). As far as it was possible, the author has listed and analysed the origin of these loanwords. However, nearly each of them should be explored in more detail in the future.
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