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To which degree are Western and Eastern Armenian mutually intelligible?
Eastern and Western are just two codifications, the total dialect variation within Armenian is similar to that within English and arguably much less than that within German.
As noted in the other ...
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If the Armenian word for "foot", "otn", really comes from PIE *podm, why did the 'p' disappear?
What we see in otn isn't *p- > ∅, which isn't a rule in Armenian, but *po- > o-, which probably is. Some comparanda to support this: ordi 'child' and ortʿ 'calf', both from the o-grade of the ...
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An idea to phonetically relate Indo-European first-person singular personal pronouns
As the other answer somewhat obscurely tells you, all these words are related, but Armenian yes is not the common origin. There is also nothing particular in your question that justifies centering ...
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"yotta" in Greek and Armenian
It is a coincidence.
The prefix "yotta-" is in no way Greek. It is a modern, invented, coinage, derived from Greek ὀκτώ (okto) by a very roundabout and idiosyncratic route.
Armenian յոթ (yot') ...
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To which degree are Western and Eastern Armenian mutually intelligible?
There are the following differences:
The current Armenian language (which is also considered as Eastern Armenian) was created by Khachatur Abovian, who is best remembered for his novel, Wounds of ...
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If the Armenian word for "foot", "otn", really comes from PIE *podm, why did the 'p' disappear?
The simplest answer, Beekes 2001 p. 171,
is that "*p > h- in anlaut before vowel (> zero before o)" – this is one of the Armenian sound changes. A more nuanced answer is that *p ...
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Which cues can I listen for to distinguish spoken Georgian and Armenian?
The two languages have a similar set of sounds, and both have even intonation. But:
Armenian has two r, one of which is soft, Georgian r is always the hard one.
Armenian has k and q but no qʼ.
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An idea to phonetically relate Indo-European first-person singular personal pronouns
You're right that all of these are (probably) related! However, it's almost certain that Modern Armenian is not the common source. Armenian is a relatively modern language (it's not attested until the ...
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An idea to phonetically relate Indo-European first-person singular personal pronouns
Since this question is likely to disappear soon into the limbo of unspeakable queries I will restrict myself to a brief answer. The Armenian word for the 1st person singular pronoun is /es/, which in ...
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What is this language?
This is Armenian. I'm failing to translate whole text, though it's not a dialect, on the contrary, it seems to me to be a literary language, quite standard, it's just that I'm failing to understand 10%...
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Are there any loanwords between Turkish and Armenian?
Yes, there are a great many, especially in spoken language and in regional and archaic dialects. On average, there are more Turkish terms in spoken Armenian than Armenian in Turkish, and many many ...
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