13-09-2016, 05:56 AM
(13-09-2016, 05:02 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On a similar note, I just noticed for the first time that phoenician or Punic inscriptions look like a whole bunch of 4, o, 9.
One thing I have noticed about ciphers after pouring over hundreds and hundreds of ciphers in Latin, German, French, and Arabic, is that shapes like the gallows characters aren't even that unusual. Since "magical" scripts (which were often based on constellation symbols) often were lines with loops on the ends, cipher characters often followed this model, so shapes with a line or two and loops at the ends or corners are common. Even if they don't exactly match the gallows characters, they DO match the kinds of shapes people come up with when trying to design coded alphabets.
As for the rest of the characters, as I've mentioned, they are mostly Latin, even the ones that look strange to people who are unfamiliar with medieval abbreviations.