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Actually we have the exact same word in Armenian -- «Հը՞», with the exact same meaning

by sssilver 12y ago

dubcanada 12y ago
How do you pronounce «Հը՞» ? And «Հը՞» looks crazy btw...
- sssilver 12y ago
  Հը is pronounced pretty much exactly as "Huh". Հ = H ը = the sound of the letter "i" in the words "birth" and "dirt". ՞ = ?; it is the Armenian question mark. Unlike Latin languages, the question mark is placed adjacent to the vowel it's meant to raise the pitch of. English equivalent would be look like this: "Hu?h"
  - ozh 12y ago
    I didn't imagine question marks (or exclamation marks too?) could be placed anywhere but at the end of a sentence. The Armenian syntax makes a lot of sense, I feel smarter to know this, than!ks :)
    - sssilver 12y ago
      Actually, yes. Imagine saying "When, tomorrow?" In most latin-based languages, you'd have only one question mark at the end, although you raise your pitch twice (on "When", and on "tomorrow"). In Armenian it would look like -- "Whe՞n, tomo՞rrow." Exclamation mark follows the same logic, and looks like: ՜ "Hello!" = "Ողջո՜ւյն"
  - melvinmt 12y ago
    Are «» the Armenian quotation marks? Lav lav es, hamar sowroomem; the only Armenian words I know.
  - egeozcan 12y ago
    According to Wikipedia, "linguists classify Armenian as an independent branch of the Indo-European language family" and "Armenian has its own unique script, the Armenian alphabet, invented in 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots"[1]. As a Turkish citizen who lived on the other side of the border for 23 years, I was not aware that Armenian had such a unique script and grammar. Is it harder to learn than the Latin alphabet? I'm curious because we apparently switched to Latin script for writing Turkish from Arabic script just because of the steep learning curve (at least that's what they had thought us at school). [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language
egeozcan 12y ago
We have "ha?" which is read very similar to huh and meaning the same thing, also in Turkish. This is getting interesting.

Actually we have the exact same word in Armenian -- «Հը՞», with the exact same meaning

dubcanada 12y ago

How do you pronounce «Հը՞» ? And «Հը՞» looks crazy btw...

sssilver 12y ago
Հը is pronounced pretty much exactly as "Huh". Հ = H ը = the sound of the letter "i" in the words "birth" and "dirt". ՞ = ?; it is the Armenian question mark. Unlike Latin languages, the question mark is placed adjacent to the vowel it's meant to raise the pitch of. English equivalent would be look like this: "Hu?h"
- ozh 12y ago
  I didn't imagine question marks (or exclamation marks too?) could be placed anywhere but at the end of a sentence. The Armenian syntax makes a lot of sense, I feel smarter to know this, than!ks :)
  - sssilver 12y ago
    Actually, yes. Imagine saying "When, tomorrow?" In most latin-based languages, you'd have only one question mark at the end, although you raise your pitch twice (on "When", and on "tomorrow"). In Armenian it would look like -- "Whe՞n, tomo՞rrow." Exclamation mark follows the same logic, and looks like: ՜ "Hello!" = "Ողջո՜ւյն"
- melvinmt 12y ago
  Are «» the Armenian quotation marks? Lav lav es, hamar sowroomem; the only Armenian words I know.
- egeozcan 12y ago
  According to Wikipedia, "linguists classify Armenian as an independent branch of the Indo-European language family" and "Armenian has its own unique script, the Armenian alphabet, invented in 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots"[1]. As a Turkish citizen who lived on the other side of the border for 23 years, I was not aware that Armenian had such a unique script and grammar. Is it harder to learn than the Latin alphabet? I'm curious because we apparently switched to Latin script for writing Turkish from Arabic script just because of the steep learning curve (at least that's what they had thought us at school). [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language

egeozcan 12y ago

We have "ha?" which is read very similar to huh and meaning the same thing, also in Turkish. This is getting interesting.