Photo by Lory Tatoulian
A crosswalk at Glendale Avenue and Broadway Boulevard next to Glendale City Hall, April 2011
Is Glendale helping preserve a language? There are different but similar versions of Armenian spoken by the Armenian diaspora. Western Armenian, which is spoken by many immigrants who came to the United States, is considered by UNESCO to be in danger of extinction.
But it’s common to see Armenian script in Glendale, where it’s found not only in commercial signage, but on public property such as crosswalks and government buildings.
