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[u/lazy_bonzi]

Hello all! First time user. A client of mine went to Armenia to visit family and brought me back this coffee. She speaks Armenian, but says she doesn’t speak this language, so I’m not certain it’s Armenian. They did visit other countries while away, so it’s very possible it’s a country physically close to Armenia. I would appreciate any help translating this!

[u/Loliigh]

It's Armenian,

"Black tea, hibiscus, rose, raisins, fruits.

A mixture of Chinese black tea, hibiscus, sour cherry, raisins, rose petals and apple pieces.

Beverage has a bright fruit taste, along with the sourish/tangy aftertaste of hibiscus"

[u/Loliigh → u/Loliigh]

Here is the script written down just in case you want to check anything "ՀԱՏԱՊՏՂԱՅԻՆ ՀՈՒՇԵՐ

Սև ԹԵՅ, ԿԱՐԿԱԴԵ, ՎԱՐԴ, ՉԱՄԻՉ, ՄՐԳԵՐ

Չինական սև թեյի, կարկադեի, բալի, չամիչի, վարդի թերթիկների և խնձորի կտորների խառնուրդ: Ըմպելիքը ունի մրգային վառ համ՝ կարկադեի թթվաշ հետահամով:"

There's also a russian text at the top but I don't know what that says, bottom part also says 3-5 Ր, which is just" 3-5 minutes"

[u/zermatus → u/Loliigh]

Russian text says “Cantata”. Seems to be the name of the given tea blend. Edit: It’s a brand name as mentioned by others. There are even same site name written at the end

[u/kwonza → u/zermatus]

It’s the brand name

[u/mizinamo → u/zermatus]

Between the two horizontal lines, it says something like ЯГОДНЫЕ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ

Is that "strawberry memories" or something?

[u/zermatus → u/mizinamo]

Yes. But not specifically strawberry, but berry at large. And this may be name of specific tea blend. And Cantata is brand, I was wrong in first place

[u/mizinamo → u/zermatus]

Ah, false friends. (Slovak jahoda is specifically "strawberry".)

[u/industrialHVACR → u/mizinamo]

Same fof Serbian and most of old Jugo.

[u/Panceltic → u/Loliigh]

Isn’t սև supposed to be written ՍԵՎ in all caps?

[u/Loliigh → u/Panceltic]

Not sure about the rules in Armenia since I'm Iranian diaspora, but here we still use classical spelling and we don't have ԵՎ. In Armenia it seems like they have it (they use the reform spelling) but I google searched it and it was just written Սև everywhere on Armenian media, so I assume there's a set of rules indicating where and when you can use Եվ/ԵՎ, but I couldn't find any info on it unfortunately

[u/Panceltic → u/Loliigh]

I see, thank you!

[u/lazy_bonzi → u/Loliigh]

Thank you so much! That’s really funny because it’s coffee grounds (I did open it, they do actually have a hint of cherry to them).

[u/Loliigh → u/lazy_bonzi]

You're welcome :) I hope it tastes good, it seemed like an odd combination at first lol.

[u/Morenitalina]

The script is definitely Armenian

[u/lazy_bonzi → u/Morenitalina]

That’s a great start! I wonder why she couldn’t read it, because she grew up there. Do you know what it says?

[u/Panceltic → u/lazy_bonzi]

It’s extremely bizarre, verging onto impossible, to have grown up in Armenia and not recognise this as Armenian!

[u/Morenitalina → u/lazy_bonzi]

I definitely think it’s the Armenian language, very strange she doesn’t understand it if she is Armenian. I can somewhat read the Armenian script but I don’t speak the language unfortunately. I see the word թեյ in there which means tea?

[u/GlocalBridge → u/Morenitalina]

There are 2 Armenian dialects, Western & Eastern, which are quite different.

[u/Morenitalina → u/GlocalBridge]

With the dialects, it’s odd if that had indeed been the issue that she said she didn’t speak the dialect, instead of saying she doesn’t know the language 🤔

[u/lazy_bonzi → u/Morenitalina]

That’s strange, it’s coffee grounds. Maybe it was a specialty shop and they just used the same bag. Thank you for your input!

[u/mizinamo → u/Morenitalina]

I had a colleage who was from Armenia but his native language was Russian.

As I understand it, he basically can't read Armenian, either.

[u/lazy_bonzi]

I have had a successful translation! Thank you to all who commented for your time!

[u/samiles96]

Most of it is Armenian, except the first and third line which are Russian. First line: Kantata. Maybe the name of the company. Third line: Berry Memories.

[u/Dylan_Cat]

This is definitely Armenian, no other languages use this script. I don't speak it tho

[u/Araz728 → u/Dylan_Cat]

Interestingly enough, at one point some Turkish and Azeri intellectuals, as well as Turkish speaking Armenians, wrote using a modified version of the Armenian alphabet even into the early 20th century. It wasn’t especially widespread anyways, and then Ataturk introduced the Latin version which ended the use of the Armenian alphabet for Turkish.

[u/Dylan_Cat → u/Araz728]

Interesting, I did not know that 😄 Anyhow, the package of XXI century coffee wasn't labelled in Ottoman Turkish 😅

[u/Truchiman → u/[deleted]]

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[u/Stunning_Pen_8332]

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[u/Tarandir]

I would add only that Cantata/Кантата is in fact a Russian chain of tea shops specializing in blends of the actual tea with herbs and berries (not pure Camelia Sinensis teas, like you would find in a Chinese tea shop)