geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

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4. You have shown that it is possible to find valid Greek word from consonants. You used נכרן as an example and found an valid word νεκρον (nekron). This looks also fine for me. It is not important what letters you could recognize from that unclear photo of hand-written scripts. What important here is whether you could find valid Greek word based on whatever recognized Hebrew letters. You found it, and that’s why I think it acceptable.

Yes, vowels are important for many languages, but it does not mean that we cannot write them with abjad alphabets. Don’t forget that there were, and still are a lot, a lot of non-Semitic languages written in Perso-Arabic scripts.

For example, in China, we have Uyghur language, which is a Turkic language. Vowels are essential for Uyghur language, but before the full-vowel orthography reformation, Uyghur language was written just like Arabic, with many vowels omitted.

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Old: سلطان (S-L-T-A-N)
New: سۇلتان (sultan)
Meaning: Sultan

Old: يوسف (Y-W-S-F)
New: يۈسۈپ (yüsüp)
Meaning: Yusuf

Old: خلق (X-L-Q)
New: خەلق (xelq)
Meaning: people

Note that the new orthography of Uyghur uses a consonant letter ە (Arabic Ha) as a vowel letter for /e/. This is similar to how Latin uses a vowel letter Η (Greek Eta) as a consonant letter H, but in the other way.

Also, Hindustani is also an Indo-European language, which is written using Devanagari when self-claimed as Hindi, but written using Arabic Script when self-claimed as Urdu. I don’t have detailed information on this, but I saw somewhere before that Urdu is written in abjad instead of full-vowel. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Actlly, it’s possbl t wrt evn Englsh wthout most vwls and expct readrs t cmplt thm by thmslvs. Ths passg shld b stll readbl for most of you. Writng lk an abjd dosnt mn to omt vwls cmpltly, but to wrt vwls only whn ncssry. For exmpl, to tll betwn mnml prs lk son vs sun.

אי דונת טינק יו ווד הב מצ דיפיקלתי רידנג טיס

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