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  • #11
    Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

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

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    • #12
      Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

      Originally posted by Sip View Post
      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.
      Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
      Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
      Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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      • #13
        Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

        Originally posted by choopy View Post
        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.
        Մեկ Ազգ, Մեկ Մշակույթ
        ---
        "Western Assimilation is the greatest threat to the Armenian nation since the Armenian Genocide."

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        • #14
          Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

          Ohhh I see!

          Thank you!

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          • #15
            Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

            Originally posted by londontsi View Post
            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?
            Plenipotentiary meow!

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            • #16
              Re: Help needed with Armenian alphabet

              Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
              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.
              Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
              Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
              Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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