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]

Perhaps so ;) At least, it's been an ongoing matter of dispute for a long time now :)

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

From your comment to yers, it appears like this is just something taught in grammar school?

Since й sometimes behaves strangely, it makes sense to separate it from the other consonants when teaching basic grammar, but linguistically, I see no evidence of a debate about its consonantal status.