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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5091 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 1 of 20 01 May 2012 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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First let me get two apologies out of the way...
First: I'm not certain whether this thread belongs here or in the Advice Center, if I have chosen incorrectly, please forgive me. Second: if this isn't a real language, I'm terribly sorry for wasting everyone's time. Now that I've taken care of that: I've had a shirt for a few years now that has an interesting script on it, but I cannot identify the language. If anyone could help me out, I'd be greatly appreciative. 
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 20 01 May 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Seems to be Armenian...
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5121 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 3 of 20 01 May 2012 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think it's Armenian. Too many latin-looking letters.
Looking at a couple of the diacritics, my uneducated guess would be some sort of old (not Church) Slavonic... on the other hand, my romance-leaning eyes are seeing latin-based words, too. Omniglot has examples of many, many writing systems. It would take forever to go through them all, but you might find a match there. Could it be a conlang? R. == Edited by hrhenry on 01 May 2012 at 1:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 20 01 May 2012 at 1:46am | IP Logged | ||
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There is lots of Latin words, but also some things which I can't read. This is not necessarily a problem because more or less all old texts are full of abbreviations which are written in full in the edited version I have read. Take for instance "Homo ch mano". If this isn't Latin then I don't know what it is. There are also some cryptic letter forms, like "poaft" - I have seen s's in Gothic writing which look like this, but poast isn't a word I can recognize.
I doubt that it is Armenian - both old and modern Armenian letters look more like angular little things with hooks, and the writing here looks like rounded Medieval Latin letters. However I can see why Serpent mentioned Armenian writing - for instance the word right after "dum" on the last line but one in the second image looks right out of the examples in her link. But I would be surprised to find a mixed Armenian and Latin text. Edited by Iversen on 01 May 2012 at 1:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4679 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 5 of 20 01 May 2012 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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The bits that don't look Latin look to my eyes like they're similar to Greek letters. Look right before the "post" that
Iversen pointed out. I could at least more easily imagine a Greek/Latin hybrid than a Latin/Armenian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4679 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 6 of 20 01 May 2012 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not that I agree, but I received a guess from a non-forum-member suggesting Old Irish, FWIW.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5091 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 7 of 20 01 May 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
It could be just about anything. Well we all know it's not English or a modern latin language language, but I think you know what I mean. It might only be a decorative design that happens to take up much of the shirt. If it's helpful at all the shirt was made by a company called "brittany black petite" and was made in the USA. It has several flowers on it, but there is one on each side which has (in my opinion) a very Celtic look about it. I could upload that if anyone thinks it would be useful. (Or a shot of the entire shirt for that mattter. I think it has a Middle Eastern "feel" about it myself.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5210 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 8 of 20 02 May 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had an gut instinct for for one of the Brythonic languages (based on a bit of Breton years ago) rather than Goedelic (sp?) but there is are many latin looking words in there and a number of diacritics I don't really recognise.
Suppose it could be just some strange font? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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