gamavor Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didac...me/narmdekl.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teutonic Knight Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 Interesting. It sounds so much more natural with L instead of GH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgm1975 Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Interesting. It sounds so much more natural with L instead of GH. style_images/master/snapback.png Yes I agree. Words like Yerusaghem and Catoghicos are weird when you have GH instead of L. Traditional Armenian in fact had two "L"s. The normal "L" that we have today in words such as Yelak or lolik, and also a "guttural" L that is pronounced by placing the tongue a little further back than the spot from which a normal "L" is pronounced. This "L" was exactly like the way the English today say "L" in "well". I guess the ancient Armenians had difficulty in pronouncing this sound and it came out as GH, just as the French sometimes have difficulty pronouncing the sound "th" which comes across as "z". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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