User talk:Jshmardabes

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Hi. What did you mean to say by this? It is not very intelligible. --Vahag 19:26, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

The referenced interference stems from the fact that other ancient languages (persian, hebrew, syriac language group, greek, etc.) have had workable semi-consistent alphabets/alphabet-corollaries for the known duration of their respective existences. Armenian, though arguably one of the most insulated and well-preserved languages of the world, even with the Eastern-Western divergences, is often neglected as a root language (latin, persian, greek, etc.). It is my desire that the reader first realize that etymology is the study of words based on present knowledge, not necessarily always based in reality; whose effort to prove causality is much less valid than it's ability to show correlations. As much as I enjoy etymological inquiry, it would be wholly invalid to assume that the source of essentially every Armenian word that is not untraceably ancient is to be assumed a persian or greek derivative. It is merely a caution, and perhaps also an implied consideration of Armenian linguistic primacy. Thanks for your question, I am always happy to have friendly conversation :) Փառք Աստուծոյ


 * Sorry, but I had to revert your edits. The study of etymology is not an exact science, but it is a science nonetheless. And science (Hübschmann, Ačaryan, Jahukyan) says կամք and փառք are Iranian borrowings. If you have a serious source claiming these words are of native origin, i.e. they derive directly from Proto-Indo-European, please add them. --Vahag 07:33, 21 July 2011 (UTC)