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Ajn e bann u gor[ts]@ gitnakani [wo]r havaqi
ba[rr]er kam mtqer anaknkal lezuner[wo]v a[sh][kh]arhi,
dasakargi @st pi [th]vi n[sh]anneri.
by Samvel Z. Abelian
Comment:
Some words about Armenian. There are 38 letters in modern Armenian and,
therefore, I am compel to designate some of Armenian letters by combination
of two Roman letters or use some other characters. Whenever you see a
sequence in brackets ([ts], [rr], etc.), you should interpret it as a
single letter. Besides that, there are only two one-letter words in Armenian
("e" - "is" and "i" - "in, to" in English), but the last word ("i") used in
modern Armenian very seldom (in some expressions only). The 4-th word
("u" - "and" in English) really consists of two letters ("[wo]" and "w"), but
in Eastern Armenian it is regarded as one letter.
At the end I would like describe some phonetics (it be useful, I think).
a - as first "a" in English word "uncle"
b - as "b" in "be"
g - as "g" in "greate"
d - as "d" in "do"
je - as "ye" in "Yerevan"
z - as "z" in "zoo"
e - as first "e" in "ever"
@ - as English article "a"
th - as "theta" in Greece, but some stronger
j - as "j" in "je" in France
i - as "i" in "in"
l - as "l" in "look"
kh - as "khi" in Greece
ts - *
k - as "kappa" in Greece
h - as "h" in "home"
dz - as "dzeta" in Greece
x - as "r" in France
tj - *
m - as "m" in "my"
j - as "y" in "you" or "yes"
n - as "n" in "no"
sh - as "sh" in "show"
wo - as a conjuction of "w" and "o" at the beginning of word, and
as a single "o" in the middle and the end.
ch - as "ch" in "teacher"
p - as "pi" in Greece
dj - as "J" in "John" or "Jack"
rr - very strong "r"
s - as "s" in "sweet"
v - as "v" in "very"
t - as "tau" in Greece
r - as "r" in "bring"
c - as first "c" in "circus" in Latin
w - as "w" in English. This letter in modern Armenian can be found in
conjuction of other ones only.
ph - as "p" in "map"
q - as "q" in "queen"
o - as "o" in "of"
f - as "f" in "force"
* - there is no analogues, but you can try to say it by pronouncing theese
letters at once.
Translation:
That is a job of scientist to collect unusual words or sentences in
languages of the world classifying them according to numbers of pi
From: Samvel Z. Abelian