A workshop on the Western Armenian language organized by the Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association will kick off in Istanbul, Turkey on February 18, Bianet reported.

In 2009, the UNESCO added Western Armenian, one of the two forms of modern Armenian, to the "Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger" as a "definitely endangered language".

The workshop will stretch over a period of one year and is designed for 20 students who are continuing from the first, second and third level. The different parts of the workshop will be held at the Talar Sileyan training institution.

One course takes three months.

During the first course considered as an "Introduction to Armenian", the students will be familiarized with the alphabet, reading, writing exercises, deciphering Turkish texts written in the Armenian alphabet and basic vocabulary on topics like numbers, names of months and days, colors, greeting phrases, food, professions, age, verbs in present tense and future tense.

The number of new students to enroll is limited to ten.