Help needed with Armenian alphabet

[Davo88]

Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

Reciprocally, for Western Armenian speakers it is the Eastern version that sounds funny. :P

[londontsi]

Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

The western Armenians just have really funny pronunciations for everything......

Not as funny as you.

Every country has regional variations in pronunciation.
As an example have a close look at the English language.

I would describe as the richness and beauty of the language.
I would also link it with the history of our people.

[Mos]

Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

WTF!

Spoken, yes. But there's 2 different alphabets too??

Have you been drinking?

well it's essential the same alphabet but the spelling is different because the orthographies are different mostly because of a consonant shift. When spoken both sound actually fairly different from each other as eastern uses russian loan words and western uses turkish & arabic.

[choopy]

Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

Ohhh I see!

Thank you!

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

Not as funny as you.

Every country has regional variations in pronunciation.
As an example have a close look at the English language.

I would describe as the richness and beauty of the language.
I would also link it with the history of our people.

Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian aren't really regional variations in that way. Until the genocide, "Western Armenian" was also spoken throughout the eastern provinces of the Ottoman empire, but had lots of its own regional variations within it. Geographically, it isn't really "Western" except that it appeared in printed form predominantly in Constantinople. Anyone know how easy is it for a Eastern Armenian speaker to read a 19th century Armenian book printed in Bolis?

[londontsi]

Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian aren't really regional variations in that way. Until the genocide, "Western Armenian" was also spoken throughout the eastern provinces of the Ottoman empire, but had lots of its own regional variations within it. Geographically, it isn't really "Western" except that it appeared in printed form predominantly in Constantinople. Anyone know how easy is it for a Eastern Armenian speaker to read a 19th century Armenian book printed in Bolis?

I Agree.

Local dialects (Kavaraparpar) is not just pronunciation, it includes vocabulary as well.

I still maintain it gives the language its beauty and richness.