Madcat

Hey all, I'm trying to put on an international concert out where I live and I really want to play some of Gor Mkhitarian's music for it. I only know his songs from "Episode". Specifically I'd like to play either Shogher Jan, Stigma or Wedding Gift, but I can't find anything of his music, let alone those songs, in tabs or chord form on the web. If anyone happens to know how to play any of his songs in guitar and could maybe give the chord progressions I would really appreciate it.

I can't say I have ever heard anyone use it, nor found it any books I've ever read, western or eastern dialects... this intrigues me...

The whole reason that any language changes orthography is the fact that languages in and of themselves are evolving mechanisms. I mean, you mentioned the fact that english came to use more dipthongs instead of less. Personally I like the little ve, I don't really see any reason why we have to go back to classical orthography, especially since everyone has learned it a certain way. Unforunately I can't see the text you posted cause I'm currently living in Japan and even with an Armenian text viewer it wont show up on my funky Japanese OS, so I can't comment on that directly.