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with the Classical Armenian orthography only, the vowel represented by y will be represented by h instead, when it is at the initial position of a word or of a radical in a compound word; this difficulty has disappeared in modern Armenian with the reformed orthography that changed the original Armenian letter in such case.
This is suggested by the Greek order of the Armenian alphabet; the ow ligature for the vowel /u/, as in Greek; the similarity of the letter ի /i/ in shape and sound value to Cyrillic И и and (Modern) Greek Η η; and the shapes of letters which "seem derived from a variety of cursive Greek", including Greek/Armenian pairs Θ / թ, Φ / փ ...
Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Russia, as well as Georgia, and by the Armenian community in Iran. Although the Eastern Armenian spoken by Armenians in Armenia and Iranian-Armenians are similar, there are pronunciation differences with different inflections. [2] Armenians from Iran also have some words that are unique to them.
Ben (majuscule: Բ, minuscule: բ; Armenian: բեն) is a letter of the Armenian alphabet, used in the Armenian language. It was one of the original letters in the Armenian alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD. [1] It is speculated to be derived from the Greek letter Beta with the rightmost curves cut off somewhat.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Armenian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Armenian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
This table is a generally accepted romanization of the Armenian alphabet to be used throughout the English language Wikipedia. It aims to provide Wikipedia with a single system for all articles using proper names, words or sentences in Eastern Armenian language; while Western Armenian language uses the same letters, they can be pronounced differently, and another romanization system has to be ...
It represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel (/ɛ/) in Eastern Armenian and the close-mid front unrounded vowel (/e/) Western Armenian. This letter is related the Armenian letter Yečʼ . After the 20th century spelling reform, the letter is used to write a word initial /ɛ/, while word initial ječʼ is pronounced /jɛ/. Before the ...
Today it is the officially used orthography for the Armenian language in Armenia, and widely used by Armenian communities in Georgia and Russia.. It was rejected by the Armenian diaspora, most of which speak Western Armenian, including the Armenian communities in Iran, which also speak Eastern Armenian and still use the classical orthography of the Armenian alphabet.