kaya carakan sih (javanese script)
My guess too.
Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?
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#32Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?
#33It could be an imaginary language. There are certainly stranger examples, like the Codex Seraphinianus: https://www.openculture.com/2017/09/an-introduction-to-the-c...
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#34It looks like Burmese to me... [1] or Javanese [2] , or some such Brahmic script.
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#35The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
Too pretty for that. High Elvish in a different alphabet?
The inscription within the One Ring to which the OP's quote refers was written using Tengwar, which is a script devised by the Elves and therefore "looks pretty" ;)
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#36Tai 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/
Nice, Tai Le looks really close! I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
Tai Le also has similar characters but some of them in the writing do no match the Tai Le Script alphabet. I.e. the cursive y with a dot in the middle or the character that looks like "-|"
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#37Here 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?
Personally I get the feeling that they took a picture from the wrong side. Rice paper is very thin but I could be wrong, just my intuition.
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#38Here 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 like Church Slavonic.
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#39kaya carakan sih (javanese script)
could be the Balinese script as it seems (to me) to be less loopy than the Javanese script. Both are abugidas and their alphabets seem to be organized just like Devanagari and scripts for other Sanskrit derived languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_script
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#40This looks like the same text on the Voynich Manuscript [0] — only without the illustrations.