Re: Deux & erku, was: Hospitable/hostile

Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> writes:


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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:17:36 EST, Elliott Lash <AL260@...> wrote:
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> [...]
> >In Modern Western (I think..it might be Eastern tho) Armenian, it is
> pronounced:  /jEGbajr/
> >
> >and spelled:   EGbahr
> >where:  E is the letter for /jE/, /E/
> >        G is the letter for /G/
> >        h is the letter for /h/, /i/, /j/ (in various situations)
>
> Interesting. Eastern uses {j} which is very easy to memorize: its
> lowercase version looks very much like Roman _j_ without the dot.
Right! That's the letter. I merely named it 'h' since it's pronounced as H in things like:

Hagob 'Jacob'
huis 'hope'

At the end of the word it is silent:
mekena(h) 'machine'

And then in some exceptions it's pronounced: /j/
hai 'Armenian'
thei 'tea'
bai 'verb'

so forth.

Elliott