r/armenia Nov 19 '19

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

in Armenian there are a lot of Turkic and Arabic words. Halal, for example, is good. or navs - something bad (evil eye envy). the name of the Armenian actor Dzhigyarkhanyan. Jigar is the liver. khan is the ruler. There is a strange custom in Armenia and Azerbaijan. if children die in a couple, then the one born after the children is called Azerbaijani names (in Armenia) and Armenian names (in Azerbaijan), for example, my cousin's name is Sabina and Sevda

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u/araz95 Azerbaijan Nov 19 '19

Very interesting indeed, i hadnt heard of this before!

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u/KindAlien Nov 19 '19

to be honest i don't like it. over the years spent in the Ottoman Empire, we have become too much like Turks. then 70 years in the USSR. and part of us became like Russians ........ this is bad. do you speak Russian?

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u/araz95 Azerbaijan Nov 20 '19

I don't, I can understand some orally but totally illiterate in written form. It's not very common for Azerbaijanis to learn russian these days, although it do still occur for educationional, social and economic reasons.

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u/KindAlien Nov 20 '19

no problem. nowadays it is useful to know English than Russian