Cipher or unknown language - historical perspective

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several languages even in Europe who did not develop any own alphabet

Reading and writing was the great invention that brought about the rise of civilization.

It is unlikely that any community in Europe that still used an unwritten language had no sight of writing from other languages. When the time came for them to adopt a writing system they would have adapted an existing alphabet. It is so with the Latin alphabet. For instance the writing of the letter A can be traced back to phoenician writing. [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ]

The dominant alphabets in Europe are the Latin and Greek alphabets because these were the dominant cultures.

But when we look at the VMS we see characters that do not appear elsewhere. It is unlikely that these have been adapted from any other alphabet.

So I cannot see much credibility of the VMS being in any 'new' writing for a community that previously had no writing.