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That was fast! So what the hell is it?Originally Posted by Soten
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Like I said, seeing French and Arabic side by side led me to think of North Africa and Berber. So it must be a berber script of some sort. I typed in "berber script" on Wiki and that was the first thing to pop up and it fit.
Hell no I don't know Tifinagh.
Oh and Tifinagh is "the Berber Latin alphabet, pronounced [tifinaɣ], it is an alphabetic script used by some Berber peoples, notably the Tuareg, to write their language."
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It is apparently derived from Phoenician and is known from rock carvings in the Sahara, and survived at a semi-secret level among the Touaregs, a tribe known as the Blue Men because the blue dye of their clothing rubs off on their skin. Among the Touareg, it is the men who wear the veils. They use the alphabet for incantations and a few other purposes analogous to our runes. It is being revived by Berber cultural nationalists and is now taught in Moroccan schools.
When I argue with Creators who claim that there are no African alphabets, I trot out Tifinagh and also the Amharic script.
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Are we again seeing Punic influence? The character shapes are not a million miles away from Iberian.
EDIT: Too Slow!
Last edited by Osweo; 10-13-2009 at 01:45 AM.
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Yes, it looks like a Punic offshoot.
Here is a source in Csongi.
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This is probably too easy. What is this?
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Is that some Elvish variant of an obscure script used by several million people in a remote corner of India no one has heard of? The syllables match those of Indian syllable-based scripts but I don't recognize the symbols at all.
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Ah, Tocharian!
But the Omniglot transliteration beneath made it too easy!
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Yes, it is indeed Tocharian. And yeah, a text would be better to work with than a table.Ah, Tocharian!
But the Omniglot transliteration beneath made it too easy!
LOL @ obscure Elvish script used in India, Lodd.
You're up, Osweo.
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Alright I will butt in.
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