kaya carakan sih (javanese script)
Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?
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#22Maybe someone at Miskatonic University could help?
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#23Wow, 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...
My impression was Russian/Georgian or similar too, but slanted wrong. Perhaps mirrored?
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#24kaya carakan sih (javanese script)
Looks plausible. Do you know the language and read what it says? If yes, that would be conclusive.
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#25Wow, 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...
My impression was Russian/Georgian or similar too, but slanted wrong. Perhaps mirrored?
Not Russian, under any mirroring, slant, or rotation. Cannot be sure about Georgian - it uses completely different glyphs.
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#26Here 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...
Looks a bit like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaung_language#/media/File...
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#27Tai 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/
To anyone else who was wondering what Tai Le is:
The Tai Le script, or Dehong Dai script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Tai Nüa language spoken by the Tai Nua people of south-central Yunnan, China
Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?
#28Tai 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/
Here's another Tai Le (aka Dehong Dai, Nɯa, Chinese Shan) resource w/images. [0] Many links, and a long list of related languages.
[0]https://www.omniglot.com/writing/tainua.htm
Majority of speakers (>440k) in Yunnan province. "It is also spoken in northern Vietnam, France, Laos, Myanmar, Switzerland, Thailand."
That distinctive long, vertical u-shape is used in 5 vowels. (Reminds me of Voynich)
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#29Javanese
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#30Tai 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/
I am Armenian and I can almost guarantee you it is not Armenian writing nor Armenian cursive. It almost looks like a mix between Arabic and Armenian.
It may be some Middle Eastern language..