The Western Armenian Language Thread

[ARGENTINA]

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I don't think he is a Turk.










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% 100 correct.

[ARGENTINA]

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[ARGENTINA]

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(you wouldn't know all this because you're a Turk) .

stop beeing rediculus , to be honest I dont take children like you serious anyway if you want to play with someone Armenia will suit you fine

[womble]

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Here's an interesting article on how the best aspects of both main Armenian dialects might be brought together to create a unified Armenian language (I doubt it will ever happen though):

http://www.jgm75.com/Language.htm

P.S. - It also happens to be the article that Argentina cut and pasted from a few posts back.

[Federate]

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Here's an interesting article on how the best aspects of both main Armenian dialects might be brought together to create a unified Armenian language (I doubt it will ever happen though):

http://www.jgm75.com/Language.htm

P.S. - It also happens to be the article that Argentina cut and pasted from a few posts back.

Thanks for the link, it's a good summary of some of the things me, Lucin and Yerazhishda have been discussing. He mentions the loss of "իւ", the "եան"/"յան" issue, Iranian-Armenian escaping the Soviet reforms etc. Take a look folks.

[yerazhishda]

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«եւ» vs. «ու»

When do we use each? For example:

Հող, հաւատք, ու Հայ լեզու vs. հող, հաւատք, եւ Հայ լեզու

Why is it correct to say the first example but not the second?

[yerazhishda]

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I was wondering, does Armenian orthography have its own exclamation mark? As far as I know, I have used this ---> ՜ but I always have the feeling that it's not right.

Federate,

Check out page 16 of Hagop Andonian's "Beginner's Armenian". He clearly says that «...» corresponds to the exclamation point. Here's the link: http://books.google.com/books?id=3Ls...onian#PPA16,M1

[Federate]

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Federate,

Check out page 16 of Hagop Andonian's "Beginner's Armenian". He clearly says that «...» corresponds to the exclamation point. Here's the link: http://books.google.com/books?id=3Ls...onian#PPA16,M1

Nice research Yerazhishda.

It's the first time I've encountered this though and I believe he is not correct in making that statement. The reason why I say this is because firstly, Mr. Andonian does not talk about the շեշտ in that extract about punctuation. But more importantly, if you dissect the words "Կախման կէտ" itself, կախման means "of hanging" or in this context "omission" and կէտ is "point/mark". So basically, it implies that it's used when you are left hanging or if there is an omission. This is in line to the way the "..." is employed in English and many other languages.

The word "շեշտել" on the other hand means "to emphasize" which goes better with the idea of an exclamation mark.

[ara87]

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What's the correct name for "Earth" in Armenian? I've always used/said "ashkar" but i just read it was "Ergir/երկիր"

[yerazhishda]

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What's the correct name for "Earth" in Armenian? I've always used/said "ashkar" but i just read it was "Ergir/երկիր"

Ashkhar means world - usually used in context of things/people. For example, if I said "ampoghch ashkhar@" (entire world) it would be more in reference to the people/things than to the actual earth.

However, yergir has three meanings if I am not mistaken. It can mean actual 'dirt/earth'. It can mean 'Earth' and it can also mean 'country/nation'.