i agree with nairi in regards to music...
when i see mona lisa, i hear voices in my head telling me to bite her nose (a uniqe feeling, experience)... but that doesn't make mona lisa an abstract painting, does it?
just wanted to point out that the fact that there are words ending with -ak, -uk, -ik, other -endings, whether making them diminutive or giving them other specific meanings, does not mean that every word that ends with the similar way belongs to the same category. the same way, just because some -endings or words with a specific ending may have originated from another language, or the method is of foreign origin, does not mean that all words with similar -endings are from the same language origin.
nairi, unfortunately she hasn't brought any song books. she says she still has a few books back in armenia, which include notes for the songs...
but we brought a 300-page curriculum book for kindergarten published in '67, which is so "tarapats" that i'm afraid to hold in my hands. it contains all kinds of "patmvatsqner, votanavorner, yerger" for kids from 3 to 7. i'll go through it and will give a few titles (and maybe even type them) for the youngest kids...
both of my grandfathers were of Yedesyo ancestry...
here is how we know it...
jor, jor, jor gna
yel vaze mamonts gna
mamon zhen yekel e
korkot apur yepel e
ker, ker, kshtatsi
ar gtalik@ lze
ar sherepik@ vaze
mamon @nkni chamur@
manch@* @nkni xamur@...
*the name of the kid
reminded another one from that "series"... (i'm not sure though if i remember it right)
jor, jor, jor gna...
??? tun gna...
mamen (?) zhamen yekel e
korkot apur yepel e
....
but just off top of my head...
"dahukner", "... kanach, kanach batsatum, vazvzum em, trchkotum..." (the name? something about "napastak"), "jan im gndak, im gndak", "pison, pison mlavan, Tavriz@ toghets, paxav Van" (), etc...
most children poems out there (there are many of them) have been turned into songs, if not by professonal composers, then by some kindergarten teachers for sure. my mother worked in a kindergarten for long time and had many children poems/songs books. i'll check out if she has brought any of them with her, when i go home.
some time in early/mid 20th century, such experiments have been conducted in Kotayq region of Armenia, namely between humans and donkeys... we can clearly see the results today...
but it feels as though such experiments have been done for too long now and with wider scale... otherwise how do you explain the fact that there are so many people who are full of BULL$h!t, or the ones who madDOG people, or the ones with COCKy attitude, or fish with human faces... and so many more...
some will never understand some things... others will never understand other things... only very few will understand it all, and i don't know how good that is...