Voynichese: a forgotten turkic-aramaic-persian language?

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One of the things I find interesting about old Turkic is that there are a number of words that are the same as some of the northern African languages.

In fact, one of the old Turkic alphabets (there are several, but this is one based on Cyrillic), has a few shapes in common with Amharic/Ge'ez (including three benched characters). I suppose that's not completely surprising, since the Cyrillic alphabet shares commonalities with Greek, but this long-ago connection doesn't immediately come to mind when seeing it.


If you would like to see some old Turkic script written in Ughyur script (which was written vertically), check this out:

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Each of those bumps is a different letter and it's almost impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends (trust me, I've tried) or whether it's one double-bump or two single bumps. You would basically have to learn the shape of the word as a whole to read it.