15-05-2019, 10:30 AM
Mark, I'm not going to argue this. I spent several YEARS looking at every alphabet on the planet, looking for similarities.
The only one that is close is Latin, and it is very close, not only in shape, but in terms of the position within tokens, and also in terms of the abbreviation symbols that show up every several pages or so.
No, we do not know if "a" is Latin-a or c + i combined (it's just important to keep in mind that it could be either), but MOST of the shapes are consistent with Latin and NOT consistent with other alphabets.
I don't assume anything beyond that. I do NOT assume the shapes have anything to do with their meaning.
At this point, having spent years searching alphabets and learning about two dozen languages well enough to read simple text in those alphabets, I came back to Latin because it's the only alphabet that's overall similar. But at least I KNOW that from investigating all the alphabets I could find.
So, my primary interest now is deciphering it, regardless of what shapes are used.
The only one that is close is Latin, and it is very close, not only in shape, but in terms of the position within tokens, and also in terms of the abbreviation symbols that show up every several pages or so.
No, we do not know if "a" is Latin-a or c + i combined (it's just important to keep in mind that it could be either), but MOST of the shapes are consistent with Latin and NOT consistent with other alphabets.
I don't assume anything beyond that. I do NOT assume the shapes have anything to do with their meaning.
At this point, having spent years searching alphabets and learning about two dozen languages well enough to read simple text in those alphabets, I came back to Latin because it's the only alphabet that's overall similar. But at least I KNOW that from investigating all the alphabets I could find.
So, my primary interest now is deciphering it, regardless of what shapes are used.