deciphering Armenian and other...

[varpho]

i've found and interesting monument in Budapest [18 arr., Szervet tér, near the Unitarian church of Pestszentlőrincz] - it has inscriptions in 14 languages spoken in Hungary [Hungarian, Bulgarian, "Gipsy" (Roma), Greek, Croatian, Polish, German, Armenian, Romanian, Ruthenian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian and Ukrainian]. i'm wondering, why there is

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[kaikias]

Greek: Η ΧΩΡΑ ΠΟΥ ΕΧΕΙ ΜΙΑ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΕΝΑΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟ ΚΑΙ ΜΙΑ ΣΥΝΗΘΕΙΑ ΕΙΝΑ ΑΔΥΝΑΤΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΥΠΕΡΑΣΠΙΣΤΗ.

[varpho]

thank you!

[tortipede]

...ΕΙΝΑ ΑΔΥΝΑΤΗ...

EINAI ΑΔΥΝΑΤΗ, surely?

[kaikias]

Yep. Typo.

[firerosearien]

I imagine there's no Yiddish because I don't imagine St. Stephen was talking to the Jews...or that Yiddish as a language may have not been developed by this time.

[muckefuck]

If you want to get technical, Romani wasn't a language of Hungary at that time either. The first solid evidence of Roma in the Balkans dates only to the 14th century. And the idea that Ruthenian is a language distinct from both Ukrainian and Slovak is relatively recent one as well.

[embryomystic]

I'm not able to summon relevant dates from memory, and thus can't say, offhand, but it's possible that even if it was distinct at the time, it wouldn't have been seen as such, and was rather thought of as Judeo-German. In that case, it'd be included in German.

[varpho]

but the original text of St. Stephen's admonitions was in Latin and all the languages listed here are modern ones [although Polish version is slightly archaic].

OK, i've checked what minorities are officially recognised by the Hungarian state as ethnical minorities and it lists Poles, but not Jews. kinda weird...

[fpb]

A convenient doctrine for Magyar conqerors. Whether their conquered Romanian, Slav and German subjects contributed anything to the stability of the state is another matter altogether.

[isolationthirst]

Here's Croatian with proper diacritics:
jer jednojezična država i država s istim običajima je krhka i slaba.

Also, I can't really read cyrillic, but it's обичаjима in Serbian line (no space).

[varpho]

hvala!

LOL. i noticed only now that i posted it before rendering V's into háčeks... :D

[dumisquba]

Very interesting monument indeed

[varpho]

thank you!

maybe they just left the diacritics in the Romani version to make it more universal?

[varpho]

and yes, the text says that this monument was prepared in 2003 by a sculptor artist Yengibarian Mamikon, who apparently is present on facebook. :)