Hratchia Adjarian is the greatest Armenian linguist; his specialty: the Armenian Language and its dialects. He is rightly considered the founder of Armenian dialectology. He arrived in Paris is 1895 and attended the linguistics courses in the Sorbonne and other institutions. He was selected a member of the Paris Linguistic Society in 1897. In 1909, under the directorship of Antoine Meillet, he received his doctoral diploma.

His publications in French:

«Croisements de mots en arménien» (Cross-breeding of Words in Armenian), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique (Reports of the Linguistic Society) - n° X, Paris, 1898.
«Etude sur la langue laze» (A Study of the Laz Language), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique - n° X, Paris, 1898.
«Les explosives de l’ancien arménien» (The Explosives in Ancient Armenian), La Parole ou Revue internationale de Rhinologie, Otologie, Laryngologie et Phonétique expérimentale (The International Word or Review of Experimental Rhinology, Otology, Laryngology and Phonetics), Paris, 1899.
«Gutturales issues de semi-occlusives par dissimilation» (Guttural Issues of Semi-occlusives by Dissimilation), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique - n° XIV, Paris, 1906-08.
«Étymologies arméniennes» (Armenian Etymology), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique - n° XV, Paris, 1908-1909.
«Classification des dialectes arméniens» (Classification of Armenian Dialects), Champion, Paris, 1909.
«Recueil de mots kurdes en dialecte de Novo-Bayazet» (Compendium of Kurdish Words in the New-Bayazet Dialect), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique - n° XVI, Paris, 1909-11.
«Étymologies arméniennes» (suite-continuation), Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique - n° XX, Paris, 1918.
«Étymologies arméniennes», Revue Études Arméniennes, III, Librairie Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1923.

His primary Armenian works:

??????? ????????? ??????? (Root Dictionary of Armenian), ?. ????. (1^st edition), 1926-1935:
???????? ????????????? ????? ??????? ?????????????? 562 ?????????? (Comprehensive Grammar of the Armenian Language, Compared with 562 Languages), 12 ????? (12 volumes), ???????? ????? ????. (SSRGA Publishing), ?????? (Yerevan): 
????? ????????????? ??????? (Dictionary of Armenian Personal Names), 5 ????? (5 volumes), ?. ????. (1^st edition), 1942-1962:
????? ?????? ?????????? (History of the Armenian Language), 2 ????? (2 volumes), 1942-1962:
?. ??????? ?? ?????? ????? ?????????? ?????????? ?? ????? ?????????? (The Sources of the History of M. Masdots and the Discovery of the Alphabet and their Examination), 1907:
????? ????? (The Armenian Alphabet), 1925:
As well as catalogs of ancient manuscripts.

Translated by Y.K.

Read Fr. Nerses Akinian’s article on Hratchia Adjarian (?????? ????????, LXVII, 1953, July-September, pp. 443-465.(pdf 1,3 Mo)