Y, n, sh, and o

Meet hi, nu, sha, vo and practise telling them apart.

One letter, two cases

These lessons use Eastern Armenian pronunciation and modern reformed spelling. Capitals start sentences and names; most running text is lowercase. The capital and lowercase are the same letter and sound. There are no Arabic-style positional forms.

hi

Յ յ makes y as in yes in modern reformed spelling. The letter name hi does not mean an h sound.

nu

Ն ն makes n. Compare Ն Մ and ն մ; they remain different letters in both cases.

sha

Շ շ makes sh. Compare it with voiced Ժ ժ and with the shapes Չ չ.

sha

vo

Ո ո usually makes o; at the start of many words it is vo. In ու it helps write u instead.