Is YEV a letter?

[Harut82]

1 down, 37 to go.

there are 39 letters in the Armenian alphabet

[HyeJinx1984]

*counts the letters again* I got 38 here... you're not counting "yev" are you? My teacher told us many Armenians mistakingly consider "yev" a letter.

[angelik22]

yev is another letter... whachoo talkin about?

[angelik22]

its a combo of yee and v, in shorthand we use yev... trust me

[Tres Bien]

yeah thats right! Yev is counted as a letter

[HyeJinx1984]

its a combo of yee and v, in shorthand we use yev... trust me

That's what he told us that's what other Armenians would say, he said in 'makoor hyaren' it doesn't count as a letter.

[Tres Bien]

you can write the it, the YEV , that means that its a letter if its in the alfphabet.

[ckBejug]

Yev is actually not a letter of the alphabet. That would be like saying & which is shorthand for AND, as in AND (&) in X, Y, &, Z is a letter. Don't be silly people. Mesrob Mashtots wrote down 38 letters of the Armenian alphabet. Don't make the poor guy turn over in his grave in shock at such a notion. Yev is a combination of yech and hiyoon, two distinct letters that make up a total of 38.

[HyeJinx1984]

Besides, even if Yev was a letter I'd pretend it wasn't so I'd have one less thing to learn, lol.

[sleuth]

Yev is actually not a letter of the alphabet. That would be like saying & which is shorthand for AND, as in AND (&) in X, Y, &, Z is a letter. Don't be silly people. Mesrob Mashtots wrote down 38 letters of the Armenian alphabet. Don't make the poor guy turn over in his grave in shock at such a notion. Yev is a combination of yech and hiyoon, two distinct letters that make up a total of 38.

Mesrop Mashtots wrote down 36 letters of the Armenian alphabet. The last letters : o and f lend from Latin alphabet. And u are right YEV is a combination of E( yetch) and V (VEV).The original Armenian alphabet( also called Mesropian) consist 36 letters.