Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

ghayes wrote: post #3

Here are the direct links to the not very high resolution photographs from the article: [0] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/323b9a63-45... [1] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/bdb99b5f-a4...

Thanks. The news station certainly isn’t helping anything with the quality of those photos.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Post by mynegation » Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

Tai Le? [1]

I honestly don’t know but I stuck some handwritten symbols into Shapecatcher [2] and this is my best guess.

Other handwritten examples:

https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script...

My other guesses were Georgian, Armenian, or (though unlikely) cursive variant of aboriginal syllabics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Le_script

[2] https://shapecatcher.com/

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Post by imgabe » Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 4:05 AM UTC

Wow, crazy to see my hometown news station on Hacker News.

I wonder if it could be Russian cursive[1]. It looks like it's maybe slanted the wrong way though.

https://external-preview.redd.it/_7TECX4LqBnawfANogqhrLPd9vb...

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Post by niblettc » Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 4:06 AM UTC

The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Post by BlueGh0st » Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 4:07 AM UTC

ghayes wrote: post #3

Here are the direct links to the not very high resolution photographs from the article: [0] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/323b9a63-45... [1] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/bdb99b5f-a4...

Do these photos and the way they were shown in the news not look upside down to anyone else?

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Post by vzaliva » Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 4:07 AM UTC

imgabe wrote: post #6

Wow, crazy to see my hometown news station on Hacker News. I wonder if it could be Russian cursive[1]. It looks like it's maybe slanted the wrong way though. https://external-preview.redd.it/_7TECX4LqBnawfANogqhrLPd9vb...

no, it is not Russian cursive

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Post by mynegation » Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 4:08 AM UTC

imgabe wrote: post #6

Wow, crazy to see my hometown news station on Hacker News. I wonder if it could be Russian cursive[1]. It looks like it's maybe slanted the wrong way though. https://external-preview.redd.it/_7TECX4LqBnawfANogqhrLPd9vb...

It is not Russian. Source: native Russian speaker with a knowledge of Russian scripting systems dating back at least 1000 years.