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| WortDrauf Already banned: zarathustra, lifelover Newbie Canada Joined 5395 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 16 16 February 2010 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
In my Outdoor Education class, we received a booklet with some strange writing in it besides English. My teacher proposed Chinese or Korean, and I had to stop myself from laughing. I think it's some kind of Native American language. Or is it perhaps a corruption of some language/total jibberish? I'd be really interested to know. Any ideas?
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 2 of 16 16 February 2010 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
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I think its a code. like a certain symbol means A, another for B etc. I've never seen that before in my life. I write in code all the time lol (yes, nerd)
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 3 of 16 16 February 2010 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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It looks like an alphabetical writing system, and "Bighorns" and "Dall" (sheep) suggest a connection to the Rocky Mountains Region. I have tried to look up some of the native American tribes in Omniglot, and at last the Cherokee had their own alphabet. But I couldn't find anything that matched the scans.
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5677 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 4 of 16 16 February 2010 at 5:25am | IP Logged |
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I don't know but I really like the forms in the first picture.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 16 16 February 2010 at 12:33pm | IP Logged |
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Very curious...was this this actually written on your booklet or photocopied?...and do you have any more examples (preferably with accompanying English text/pictures)?
The English suggests that this book is describing something of the wildlife in north-west Canada and Alaska, and so first thoughts go to Eskimo-Aleut or First Nation aboriginal languages. Yet this doesn't look anything like any of the scripts I've ever seen, and unlike many alphasyllabic native American writing systems, there is little symmetry amongst the disjointed angular signs here. However it does look so vaguely familiar... It bears a faint passing resemblance to ancient Negev and African scripts like Mende, and with a bit of imagination you'll even notice some Phoenecian and alchemical looking symbols hidden in there. There is some regularity in the repetition of certain signs, and their combinations, and there also seem to be diacritics that look like small attached 'T's and single/double strokes, that change orientation to perhaps indicate different vowels or syllable/dipthong combinations. It's further interesting to note that every sign either has one of these "tiny T" diacritics attached to it or the letter T can be found somewhere in the symbol itself. When you remove these theoretical diacritics and blur your eyes a little, you can almost spell out words sometimes, which could possibly suggest these mystery messages are dysphasic, idiosyncratic or most likely deliberately coded. I particularly like the odd cheery exclamation mark/upside-down man symbol on the end of the first example. Of course, this could just be someone's constructed secret language, cipher or shorthand, an elaborate linguistic joke, or even upside-down... ;) Edited by Teango on 16 February 2010 at 4:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Linc Newbie Macau Joined 5442 days ago 29 posts - 45 votes Studies: English Studies: French | Message 6 of 16 17 February 2010 at 12:05am | IP Logged |
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Humm...looks like the water(shui) script
water script: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrittura_shui Edited by Linc on 17 February 2010 at 12:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WortDrauf Already banned: zarathustra, lifelover Newbie Canada Joined 5395 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 7 of 16 17 February 2010 at 12:38am | IP Logged |
Rocky Mountains are certainly probable, since I live in BC, Canada. It seems to be written in and then photocopied, rather than existing in the original print. Here are some more examples (the booklet is on various animals):
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 16 17 February 2010 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
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That makes me think of a Native American language, like has already been said. Cherokee springs to mind because it's the only one I've really looked at, although I can tell you that's not the Cherokee alphabet. Probably what ever tribe(s) you have up in BC is who it belongs to.
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