[tied] Re: Unknown alphabet (a.k.a Song)

From: m_iacomi
Message: 25025
Date: 2003-08-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" wrote:

>>> I posted a file called alpha1.gif
>>> I have no idea what an alphabet this one could be.
[...]
>>> I should be very thankfull to any of your opinnions.
>>
>> Well, Alex, where does it come from?
>
> Looks Aramaish to me.

Naaah, it isn't. This "alphabet" in which is written a funny
Middle Ages book called "Codex Rohonczy" (from which the image
was taken) uses some thousands of different signs, unlike the
Aramaic real (phonological) alphabet. It is true that it "looks
like" (in some sense) Aramaish, as if they'd using more or less
similar font charsets :-), but sign-to-sign similarities are to
be considered purely coincidental (since with a reduced number
of lines, in a charset of about 800 entries, one would surely
find out some similarities with some other characters composed
by a small number of lines too) and there are more Aramaic
letters without visual correspondent in this text. See also:
http://www.historian.net/files.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/aramaic.htm

The "book" is written in an unknown language with a unknown
alphabet and some people strangely believe it has something to
do with early Romanian history (thus explaining Alex' interest
in the alphabet), but I find practically no argument which
would support such a statement: the document would suggest
merely Occidental idiomatisms (as cryptic script, pictures, etc.).

Without other comments about this object, I provide here the
link to a web-page presenting all the pages of the book; those
who want to have fun may take a look:

http://www.dr-savescu.com/codex/original/original.html

Regards,
Marius Iacomi