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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6438 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1 of 6 26 July 2013 at 12:23am | IP Logged |
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Years ago I bought a Russian chess clock on eBay. Here is a pic of the manual. What language is written at the top?
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7145 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 2 of 6 26 July 2013 at 12:26am | IP Logged |
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It's Armenian. Sorry, though, that although I recognize the alphabet, I don't know more than a few words in the language itself.
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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6438 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 3 of 6 27 July 2013 at 8:21am | IP Logged |
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Cool, thanks.
Why would it be written in Armenian? I think the rest of the book is in Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7145 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 4 of 6 27 July 2013 at 9:57am | IP Logged |
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It's just a guess, but if it was manufactured in Soviet Armenia, the Armenian name of the factory might have been included. Armenians are big chess players, and so it wouldn't be surprising to see something like this made in Armenia...
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4773 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 5 of 6 27 July 2013 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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It says "šaxmati elektronayin žamačap’". The "elektron" part is pretty obvious, "šaxmati" is almost identical to the Russian word for chess, and from my brief exposure to Armenian through the short Pimsleur course I recall "žama" having something to do with time, so I believe the meaning of the Armenian text is the same as that of the Russian at the bottom, "electronic chess timer".
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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6438 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 6 of 6 27 July 2013 at 5:14pm | IP Logged |
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Cool, thanks for the translation! Edited by IronFist on 27 July 2013 at 5:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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