(27-05-2016, 06:52 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Could it be a "Latinizing" transcription of another script, to make it easier to read for Europeans while keeping the inherent structure of the source? For example a European copying a "insert language like Mandarin here" text, replacing the original glyphs with more familiar ones?
I wouldn't rule this out if the original text was strongly structured, perhaps exploiting some inherent properties of the source language or script.
Many languages are written using Arabic script, just as many languages are written using Latin script. Borrowing a script style to convey a language that doesn't have a character set of its own (or which is geographically divided as to character set) is not at all unusual (and was more common in the past than now).