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You're saying the г in ага sounds the same as the г in Горький?

OK, hard, soft, whatever, my point is that it sounds different from the г in Горький.

Dunno, I think most people in my counrty say Амлет, Итлер - we tend to drop our haitches (the г in such words is corresponds to the Germanic H and when it is pronounced it's pronounced as in the...

The origin of this word is actually kind of interesting. The word is derived from "Khitan", which was the name of some Mongol kingdom in the Uighur area. Apparently Russians adopted this term whereas...