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 01/16/06 09:43 PM
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QUOTE(Yerevan) QUOTE(Dīrī) Merci is French...
Yes, merci is French. Yes, but it is also used in Farsi. Either that or my parents have been speaking French to me this entire time 
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01/16/06 10:15 PM
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QUOTE(CyrustheGreat) QUOTE(Yerevan) QUOTE(Dīrī) Merci is French...
Yes, merci is French. Yes, but it is also used in Farsi. Either that or my parents have been speaking French to me this entire time lol. It is used in Armenian also, but the origins of that word is French.
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04/14/07 12:32 AM
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yes...it's in russian, but it's a borrow from english...because elevators where invented in the west, so the countried that did not have any just took the word the english used..
just like the arabs say combutor for a computer.
another russian borrow from french is марцрутка (marchrutka), which is a borrow from french (also used in armenia) it comes from the word march(er) in french which means move, and route, which means road..so moves on a road.
merci in the armenian language comes from crusader times. when the armenian kingdom of Kilika was frequented by french crusaders and even have french royals. the word պարոն baron, comes from french baron which is like a nobleman.
and doesn't votchinch mean nothing much?
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04/22/07 10:45 PM
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QUOTE(Hosank @ 04/18/07 02:13 PM) [snapback]107340[/snapback] sure, but.that's usually in really long words that in armenian are so logical and go on for ever, so we use a borrow, yea maybe
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05/01/07 08:38 PM
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eh..persian and armenian are related, but just like every european language is.
let me explain. persian is an indo language. (related to kurdish and so on)
armenian is indo european
see, some 10 thousand years ago, some sort of a loose group of people lived in modern anatolia. they were the original aryans (or indoeuropeans). they have spread out into europe becoming slavs, germanic, celtic, latin and so on.
the greeks and armenians are the closest living relatives to the ancient indo europeans. all languages, and peoples of europe are related to this original aryan people. the armenians as i said, are infact linguisticly, and culturally closest to the original aryans.
the european languages are devided into branches..
latin (french, spanish, romanian, italian and so on)
germanic (english, german, norse, hungarian)
slavic (russian, ukrainian, serbian etc)
greek
armenian
celtic
basically, armenian is considered to be a seperate group of the european languages.
it is said that the closest relative to armenian is greek.
infact, some historians, archiologists and so on, argue that greeks and armenians come from the same proto-indo-european people that lived in anatolia (way before such a thing as a turk existed)
our language, ethnicity and alphabet have some common routes.
there are persian influences in armenian, but the armenian language is quite distinct from it.
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05/14/07 05:37 PM
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Conflict/Cultural/Country Interest: im armenian im 14 years old im cristian im not interested in any other culters like muslim because tahts wrong and muslim suck.lol
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QUOTE(Hosank @ 05/01/07 08:38 PM) [snapback]108399[/snapback] eh..persian and armenian are related, but just like every european language is.
let me explain. persian is an indo language. (related to kurdish and so on)
armenian is indo european
see, some 10 thousand years ago, some sort of a loose group of people lived in modern anatolia. they were the original aryans (or indoeuropeans). they have spread out into europe becoming slavs, germanic, celtic, latin and so on.
the greeks and armenians are the closest living relatives to the ancient indo europeans. all languages, and peoples of europe are related to this original aryan people. the armenians as i said, are infact linguisticly, and culturally closest to the original aryans.
the european languages are devided into branches..
latin (french, spanish, romanian, italian and so on)
germanic (english, german, norse, hungarian)
slavic (russian, ukrainian, serbian etc)
greek
armenian
celtic
basically, armenian is considered to be a seperate group of the european languages.
it is said that the closest relative to armenian is greek.
infact, some historians, archiologists and so on, argue that greeks and armenians come from the same proto-indo-european people that lived in anatolia (way before such a thing as a turk existed)
our language, ethnicity and alphabet have some common routes.
there are persian influences in armenian, but the armenian language is quite distinct from it. armenian language has many words similar to spanish.
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