Hello

[Siggie]

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I'll roll my R load and proud. >

Excellent! I think the non-r-rolling Armenians are secretly jealous.

[Mos]

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It always sounds to me at first that Parskahye's dialect is like armenian with a very big american accent.

[Siggie]

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It always sounds to me at first that Parskahye's dialect is like armenian with a very big american accent.

I don't know about that. We just sing (must be the Persian influence?) which I happen to like.

Yeteh guzes ne, arevmedahayeren al g'rnam khosil.
Wow, that sentence was woefully lacking in gorality (gorutyun).

[Mos]

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I don't know about that. We just sing (must be the Persian influence?) which I happen to like.

That and your 'a' is pronounced rather strangely.

[Siggie]

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That and your 'a' is pronounced rather strangely.

Is it? Like in what words?

[Asphyxiated]

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Yeah! It's the Persian influence, the slow and "singing" tone. I don't think i speak like that though, I've noticed it more in new comers from Iran to America.

[Siggie]

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Not in English; you don't do it in Armenian??

[Federate]

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Is it? Like in what words?

Mos is right, Barskahye 'a' seems to be pronounced differently than Hayastan-EA and WA. I'm trying to think of a way to explain it but i'm having difficulty . The 'a' Barskahyes often pronounce is like the 'a' in fart (yes I know, weird choice LOL).

[Asphyxiated]

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Not in English; you don't do it in Armenian??

Yes im talking about in Armenian..not English. I have been told i don't, maybe they lied 0_o

[Mos]

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Mos is right, Barskahye 'a' seems to be pronounced differently than Hayastan-EA and WA. I'm trying to think of a way to explain it but i'm having difficulty . The 'a' Barskahyes often pronounce is like the 'a' in fart (yes I know, weird choice LOL).

exactly, I can't point to a certain word, but I just feel it when I listen to them speak. I have listened also rather often Persians speak, and I can clearly see the influences. However, I must say, from all the languages I have heard, Farsi sounds most similar to Armenian. I was once playing chess with some Iranians who were speaking Farsi, and it always seemed to me like there were speaking something a shade away from Armenian. Their speaking just sounded familiar, but yet unknown at the same time.