Consonants

[Anna Rakityanskaya]

>I know of no such Georgian words, but there is a fairly common Armenian
>surname which appears in Russian in the form Mkrtcjan [readers are asked to
>imagine a hacek on the 'c'].  This could, I imagine, follow a 'single
>letter' preposition, e.g. 'Ja razgovarival s Mkrtcjanom', though I don't
>think I have encountered an example.  How 'assimilated' it is might depend
>on how many people you know with that particular surname.
>
>John Dunn


Dear colleagues,

This is how this name is assimilated:

[Mykyrchan]

(I used 'y' for a reduced vowel, and 'ch' for 'c' with a hacek.)

Best,

Anna Rakityanskaya
University of Texas, Austin
Internet: RAKITYA at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU