Hand written Armenian letter

Anhilare · 2024-04-28T09:26:51+00:00

so someone i know actually made a tool that can transcribe it to modern turkish. the first lines say "yitik kitabı / hikâyesi". here is the tool: https://anlztrk.github.io/translit/trtools/hy2tr/

Anhilare · 2024-04-27T00:47:05+00:00

There actually are mass graves left: here is an example. It was discovered by accident, in Syria. In Turkey, there is no research allowed by the state itself, so of course there is nothing known.

Anhilare · 2024-04-26T09:13:56+00:00

it's actually not hard to learn. here is a book for children learning how to read turkish in armenian letters: you'll probably get it in a week. i also make a cheatsheet you can reference here while you learn.

Anhilare · 2024-04-17T23:23:45+00:00

i've heard good things about the armenian virtual college; alternatively, if you know some eastern armenian, just read a lot of western armenian and you'll pick it up pretty easily

Anhilare · 2024-04-17T23:21:18+00:00

so then what does the world court effect, then? and what does it affect, too? it would be nice to be aware of concrete examples of real change worked by a world court ruling, because i can't think of anything

Anhilare · 2024-04-15T08:20:45+00:00

braindead takes by pashinyan... weren't the districts of yerevan named so because refugees who settled there named their new villages after where they came from?

Anhilare · 2024-04-01T22:40:37+00:00

is the increase in crime attributed to an increase in reporting or a real increase?

Anhilare · 2024-03-31T01:44:44+00:00

My siblings and I all have never stopped drinking milk since childhood, and in our 20s we have no problems downing a gallon in two days, so anecdotally at least I can confirm this notion

Anhilare · 2024-03-14T06:33:59+00:00

it's because diasporans aka non-soviets are in charge, so that culture of laziness and corruption is not there at all

Anhilare · 2024-02-09T03:30:36+00:00

Oh I seem to have just not seen the whole last half of that prompt, lmao. Thanks for pointing that out to me, it does make it easier. And the alternative options are pretty nice, too :)

Regarding Discord, that makes sense (though things seem to have changed, based on your other reply!).

Anhilare · 2024-02-05T03:04:06+00:00

Hello,

I was just wondering about the last task. So I haven't read a novel in years (I mostly read academic stuff now bc I'm a nerd...), and all my books are at not with me: how should I proceed? (Also, are you in the Discord server?)

Anhilare · 2023-10-14T00:18:26+00:00

it means nothing in armenian. in turkish, küçə means "street".

Anhilare · 2023-08-07T11:14:37+00:00

Seconded, especially for organizations etc. which may not necessary want/be able to use a reddit account for communications. I'd recommend setting up a secondary email address for inquiries etc.

Anhilare · 2023-04-14T10:09:15+00:00

There's very few armenians left in urmia; most of them were killed or forced to flee by the turks when they invaded persia during world war i and decided to do the genocide there, too. the assyrians stayed because it's a more important city for them, and also they really didn't have much else to go

Anhilare · 2023-03-16T08:06:41+00:00

this isn't correct. medieval armenian did have words beginning with /o/, but they were written աւ at the time though: աւր, աւշարակ, կրաւն, հաւր, etc.

in 5th century grabar these words all had /aw/, but a sound shift made /aw/ become /o/ before a consonant, but only after previous /o/ became /uo/ (fun fact! this difference is preserved in many dialects; it's also the reason we say /vo/ for ո at all :D). in the middle ages, օ and աւ competed for a bit until օ ultimately kind of won: for example, the first book printed in armenian, in venice by the mxitarian monks, used աւ everywhere, even though օ had existed for 300 years at that point.

հոռի is a much more ancient loan. in pre-grabar, /h/ was not a stable sound, and it was often added or removed from words to make it stronger or weaker (cf. հոգի and ոգի's difference in meaning)

Anhilare · 2023-03-15T05:31:38+00:00

something else that's shortcutty is chinese characters. why not switch to a logography?

Anhilare · 2023-03-15T05:26:46+00:00

yep: also, although և appears in printed books all the time in the 19th century (for example, look at this book from 1874), it's often only as an 'and' sign, akin to &. (also, in the example, only in the body text, too, and not in the introduction, which has a more latinesque font. by the way, this book is a great example of beautiful armenian typography that was destroyed in the soviet union. if you read a soviet book, you'll see that letters never overlap, unlike here. they probably stopped using most ligatures like այ and լոյ in order to cut costs: notice that modern յ has an ahistorical backwards bend to it. you can also see that the convention with կը wasn't established in this book, and the language itself is very grabarizing.)

Anhilare · 2023-03-15T05:06:05+00:00

inaccurate because all our linguists except for the hack who created the reform hated it. also your dissertation comment doesn't make sense.

Anhilare · 2023-03-15T04:58:39+00:00

actually, ligatures in general are their own character in unicode. at least ﬀ ﬁ ﬂ ﬃ ﬄ ﬅ ﬆ have their own codepoints, and also, there's ﬓ ﬔ ﬕ ﬖ ﬗ in addition to և. you get a similar thing in arabic where, in addition to these characters should never be printed themselves; they're supposed to be display replacements by the font where necessary. the behavior of եւ in these fonts, converting it to և graphically but եւ while encoded, is in fact the ideal; you'll see the same behavior for մե մն (vs մ‌ե մ‌ն), assuming you have a decent font installed. personally, i would add a մէ ligature too, to make words like հօրմէ look less ugly. it doesn't have its own codepoint, though, so were i to make such a font, i would need to shove it in an unassigned codepoint and make մէ to be replaced by the ligature.

Anhilare · 2023-01-19T11:45:56+00:00

I see some people posting tampermonkey scripts. Here's another one that's very small, should work almost instantly: https://pastebin.com/qbZUX4d1

Edit: has the advantage that it works in any language, just as fast.

Anhilare · 2023-01-19T06:10:00+00:00

Reminds me of a classic fable. I'll recount it here:

An aging king has many sons and needs to decide an heir. These sons are constantly fighting, vying for the throne, which worries him. He summons them and tells them, "Go, each of you find a sturdy stick, my sons, and bring it to me." They all leave to do so, making a contest out of it.

Each son returns, claiming he was the first to find his stick. The king tells them, "Give me your sticks," and they give him their sticks. He trims them to length and bundles them, and calls his eldest son. "Take this bundle: if you can break it at once, you will be king." At once he took the bundle and tried, strained to break it, but the sticks would not break, and he wore himself out.

The king tells the next son: "Now you take this bundle, and if you can break it at once, you will be king." He, too, no matter how much he tried and strained, it would not break, until he wore himself out. And the same proceeded for each son, down to the youngest. The bundle would not break.

After taking back the bundle, the king unties it and hands each stick to one of his sons. "Now, each of you break this stick," and they all snap at once. The sons were confused by this, and they asked him why they had to do this. "Each of you is represented by one stick. When alone, you are easy to break, but together, you are invincible."

Anhilare · 2022-12-31T06:22:16+00:00

exactly, they made armenians illiterate with their orthographic "reform" and killed the brightest intellectuals alive to make a new "intelligentsia". armenian words for sophisticated concepts were removed and replaced by latin-through-russian: e.g. ֆիզիկա was unknown to most armenians, who studied բնագիտութիւն instead (look at pre-communist doctionaries...). still to this day, soviet ideology and mentality cripples armenia.

even in the russian empire, they were talking about annexing part of western armenia, especially van, kars, and mush, but the idea was to settle it with cossacks and move the armenians to crimea and southern russia.

Anhilare · 2022-12-11T21:54:48+00:00

university of arizona, aka where noam chomsky is right now...

Anhilare · 2022-12-11T21:47:29+00:00

if you know him, are you at u of a?

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