Yev O Fe

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Yev O Fe

 

Is it me or is there a general impression that "yev" is part of the Ayb Ben Gim?

I have brought this up before. Many Armenian keyboards do assign a typewrier key for it. I had forgotten this, mainly beacuse I don't use it, I just looked at my NLS keyboard layout, sure enough there is a key for "yev", it is at the position of the number 7 at the top row. I still cannot see the reason for it as I don't think it is too much of a bother to type E and Hyun. This does somehow answer my question that there may be those who think "yev" is part of the Ayb Ben Gim..

How do you recite the Armenian Alphabet? In particular at the end? Hyun Pyur Qe O Fe or Hyun Pyur Qe YEV O Fe?

 

Below the alphabet . Note that it does not even list O or Fe. One reason for that may be that the designers of that site intended to deal only with the Mesropian characters. The acrostical sharakan by Shnorhali, Aravot Luso does not go past Pyur and Qe (neither does he use Hyun, we will see why).

 

http://www.iatp.am/ara/sites/babayan/

 

Qe-en Minchev Ayb. See the URL below.

 

ÆÇõë»³É ëáõñµ Ññ³ß³ÉÇ æáõÕ³ÛáÛ ì³ÝÇó,

If you can't read the above line here it is in transliteration

(I will use the letter U in place of Hyun)

Uiuseal sourb hrashali Jughayoy Vanits (Woven at the sacred and wondrous Convent at Jugha).

Shnorhali dit not treat the letter Hyun simply because there are no Armenian words beginning with it, while Azaria Jughayetsi took the poetic license to use it for the sound of its name, i.e. H as in Hyun. Therefor the first word in the above line is meant to be read as "hiuseal"(woven).

 

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=10...=0entry118526

 

Just like Shnorhali, why did not Azaria include O and Fe in his poem? It is more telling that Sb. Nerses, who wrote the Sharakan when he was the Catholicos at Hromkla (a town in Kilikia), did not treat the O and Fe. It is customary and an easy trap when reciting the Ayb Ben Gim we say Hyun Pyur Qe YEV O Fe. Some of us simply recite it as Hyun Pyur Qe O Fe, without the "yev".

Speaking about St. Nercess above I said Klikia . The original Mesropian alphabet had 36 character, the last two to make it 38 were added during Klikian times**, and, since then we do discrimante (?) by inserting the "yev" between Qe and O to stress the point that the last two were not part of the original Mesropian characters.

 

** Do you want to know the reason why? I may have already written about it, but will repeat if necessary.