Question..

[samoria.livejournal.com]

How would you say Samoria in Russian? It's pronounced Sam-or-ee-uh...

I was thinking is was CAMЙPИЯ... is this right?

Comments

[kniazhna.livejournal.com]

Have you ever gone to a grammar school in Russia? If you did, then you should have seen an alphabet chart split in vowels (red) and consonants (blue) up above the blackboard. Nowhere in those color-coded charts was an й. It was in the white one - with the other two letters. The link doesn't say anything about that, but it's a given - taught in school. And like it's that hard to figure out that an и краткое (gosh, an и at the root of this letter is a vowel, no matter how short it is) is not an actual consonant in some cases. It's neither, or - both depending on the case, just like a "y" in English (and version of alphabet description).