Talk:Հելգոլանդ

@Vahagn Petrosyan For country names and such, you cite that Barsełyan reference. I'm curious if you know if that reference says anything about giving WA alternants for country names. The annoying thing is that older names like Ամերիկա are pronounced in WA based on the orthography [ameriga] instead of passed on a direct loanword from [amerika], i.e., a WA Ամերիքա doesn't exist. For more recent loanwords like Buddhism, the EA and WA forms have divergent orthographies: EA բուդդայականություն and WA պուտտայականութիւն, both pronounced [buddaja...]. I've been playing it safe turning բուդդայականություն into hy-pron and giving it an automatic WA pronunciation as [puttaja...] because an WA speaker would read բուդդայականություն as [puttaja...] :/ Hovsepig (talk) 07:55, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

@Hovsepig: Barsełyan deals only with Eastern Armenian.

I guess you can leave automatic WA pronunciations of such words in place. They are called spelling pronunciations and do exist when reading texts written in another lect. I have heard Western Armenians pronouncing the Eastern Armenian region Ղարաբաղ (Ġarabaġ) as [ʁɑɾɑˈpʰɑʁ]. --Vahag (talk) 08:09, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

@Vahagn Petrosyan: That's the only way I know how to call that region :D (besides [artsax]. The funny thing is that the spelling-pronunciations are the rule if the loanword is old enough like լիբանան [lipanan], while newer ones try to make the original pronunciation survive into the orthography :/ Hovsepig (talk) 08:12, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

@Hovsepig: since suppressing EA or WA is easier now, I suggest we suppress those spelling pronunciations which are very uncommon. --Vahag (talk) 10:03, 13 January 2021 (UTC)