Change ). P. ք = [kʰ], k, k’ = like “kick” Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. մեք Th. ( Log Out / Today, it is used primarily by the Armenian diaspora, including all Western Armenian speakers and Eastern Armenian speakers in Iran, which has rejected the Armenian orthography reform of Soviet Armenia during the 1920s. Finally, the 'p' and 'b' sounds may also be easily interchanged when transcribing, or looking for an ancestral name, utilizing the 'pen,' 'bay,' and 'pure' letters. To hear the pronunciation of the letter, sound or word, click on the Armenian Letters or UNDERLINED transliterated Text as indicated below. The most valuable fact of Mashtots’s writing was that each sound had its own corresponding letter. Until that time, most written versions of Armenian were in Greek. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. քրիստոս ( Log Out / Because of influences from other cultures and languages over the years, Western Armenian has more of these “sound alike” letters than Eastern Armenian does. A pronunciation note: Depending on the dialect, this can sound like: dz, ds, tz, ts… and it’s rarer than other “z” counterparts. Let’s practice sounding out these new sound alikes: փառք Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Click on the Armenians Script letters to hear pronunciation. ( Log Out / The “sounds like” match is “ց,” which is also a double letter and number false friend.
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