17-12-2020, 04:32 PM
(16-12-2020, 09:17 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It also has Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew alphabets.
Don't forget Armenian, too. (For the sake of all you Anania Shirakatsi fans out in Voynichland!)
I'd like to point out that a thorough walk around the Old City of Jerusalem would carry a high probability of encountering signage with all four of these writing systems (in addition to the now-ubiquitous Roman alphabet, of course), at least when I visited it in 2010. I imagine the same would hold true when Frederick III made his pilgrimage there as a young man. Plus, a literate man of noble standing, who arrived in Jerusalem as an honored guest of a local in good standing, would have easily had access to documents and books written in all five of these writing systems, plus a few more (Kartvelian, Syriac Estrangelo, Glagolotic, perhaps Mandaic, perhaps a few ancient scripts no longer in use by that point).

