>>1407
I did consider that but decided it wasn't necessary to use the dative as the dog is a general dog, not a specific dog — I could be wrong. I'd like to think I'm already almost fluent in Armenian, but I'll ask some native Armenian-speaking friends of mine tomorrow if that will satisfy your autism.
>>1408
>Why is an ancient language written with Cyrillic?
Are you retarded? An alphabet is an alphabet, and any alphabet can be used to write any language. The reason the majority of the Guti diaspora use Cyrillic is that it's much easier than the Arabic script brought by the Arabs in the seventh century, also more recent. You're probably one of those people that think that all Gutians died or only went one way to become Kurds, aren't you? What are you smoking? It should come as no surprise that in addition to the north-migrating ones (eg. the ancestors of the modern Kurds), there were migrations to other directions. You know, because already the Akkadians drove some out, followed by a bunch of others like Iranians, Arabs, Greeks… It didn't happen overnight of course, but many migrated to Afghanistan and some from there to the Soviet Union — particularly Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan — and others to China and India. The Arabic script continues to be used by the remaining Gutians in Iran, as well as the ones migrated to Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the Soviet Union endorsed Cyrillic and thus Cyrillic came to be used by those who migrated further north — and those who migrated past Greece to Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine. I couldn't tell you if the Cyrillic or Arabic is used more, I'd guess the latter, but would you honestly expect someone belonging to a strongly oppressed minority living in either Iran or Afghanistan to post here, or on the Internet to begin with especially when this site is actually blocked in Iran? Because, tell me, how else would you expect to come across Guti written in the Arabic or another alphabet? I can tell you some use the Latin alphabet, but that's a tiny minority from within a tiny minority from within a tiny minority that has no official recognition in any country and whose cultural identity has been lost for all practical intents and purposes. Do you think we're telepathic, gathering at secret underground lairs for secret communist plots? I don't even know how many ethnic Gutians remain in the world, I know it's not many but I doubt it's more than a hundred thousand, the majority of whom likely don't give two shits about their roots and are monolingual in whatever language is spoken in their country of residence. How do you suppose such a loosely scattered group of people would keep in touch, especially when half of them might not even recognise each other's language as being the same thanks to the influences from other languages? Oh, here's an idea: come up with a standard language that unifies all the dialects scattered around the world! Now how would you go about that when the "community" is split in countless tiny communities that don't even know of each other's existence beyond the fact that they're somewhere out there? Using the Internet? Good luck when even the majority of the majority in the countries that the majority of Gutians live in don't have computers, and even though this number is fortunately increasing, the give-a-shit level is dropping with it as more and more have absolutely no reason to give even half a shit about preserving their language. Oh sure, there are a few people out there that give a giant shit, but do you think it would make any difference if all of us gave our shits to one another and smeared them on our faces like in the good old days? Who would care? Linguists? Good joke, they'd just laugh and demand we stop clinging to a fantasy that never was; half of them saying Guti no longer exists as one single language and the other half that it's a conlang.
>How do you know the Guti didn't have a word for deity?
No comment.
>This reminds me of the Turkman poster on /int/
Why would I remind you of him? I'm not a communist. I haven't said anything that would imply support for communism, bar the use of Cyrillic alphabet to write Guti but as I explained that has nothing to do with communism.