geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[geoffreycaveney]

Geoffrey,

For now, as a general way to provide some helpful background about the structure of Judaeo-Greek / Yevanic and its abjad writing system, I include here a useful summary of its alphabet which includes the pronunciation of each letter.

My point is that Yevanic isn't an abjad. Nor could it realistically be, as it is writing Greek, which is impracticable to write as an abjad. In the same way that Ladino isn't an abjad, because you can't write Spanish without vowels.
Here are the diacritics that you're missing from your above post showing the Yevanic alphabet, showing the vowels. You will see in your example text above that the vowels are clearly visible (Via You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).

The two sides of the page are the same text, the left side in Hebrew script and the right side in Greek script. Yes, this text does write the vowel diacritic dots. But imagine what the text would look like without the diacritics, and consider the ambiguity of the letter aleph in particular without the diacritics, and all the different Greek vowels that would stand in the same places in the text that aleph does.

I reckon it would be pretty illegible, as would be the Greek if you removed all the vowels.

Here is a link to an old (2006) blog post about a magician's grimoire in Yevanic script:

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Here is a screenshot of the blog post, along with a photo of two facing pages of the Yevanic manuscript:

   

Here are photos of the two pages separately, which may be somewhat more legible:

   

   

Note that there are not any vowel diacritic dots written beneath the letters at all in this Yevanic text.

Geoffrey