I love that when you try to romanize Armenian, it looks exactly like that thing sci-fi and fantasy authors do where they try to make a made-up language seem bizarre and unpronounceable by adding a bunch of apostrophes and consonant clusters. Like "tʻtʻxmor" is a real word, and honestly even one of the easier ones to pronounce (it means "yeast").

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@montag yeah i think the aesthetics of romanized “”exotic”” languages were one of the major influences for fake sci fi languages so that tracks

@Satsuma Yeah, that's probably a big part of it. Armenian also has 39 letters and doesn't write schwa in the middle of words, so it just does not fit well into the Latin alphabet.

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