Future translators of the New Testament might wish to consult this remote community in the Pontic region of Asia Minor:

Incidentally, ???????? means Roman, which harks back to the time when Orthodox Christians living in the Eastern Roman Empire called themselves ???????, or Romans, a designation used even into the 20th century in some places.
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