Unknown language #17
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Shared by Sup Gau in the Facebook group "Language Nerds":
Unknown writing system or just a prank?
Selected reading
- "Unknown language #16" (3/5/24) — with references to previous posts
- "Mirabile scriptu: fake kanji created by AI" (1/7/23)
- "I (don't) doubt that the letter is fake" (4/16/17)
- "Faux Manchu: Ornamental Manchu II" (6/23/21)
[h.t. shaing tai]
Student said,
May 2, 2024 @ 4:39 pm
The text is meaningless. Every character only appears once, indicating the abscence of the high frequency grammatical words found in real languages. Most characters are dotted or looped variants of a few characters; glyph orientation changes (90° intervals) whenever it suited the writer's arms.
These look a lot like the Chinese-esque glyph generation tests I do in my free time, drawing various combinations of features. By the looks of it, there were a few combinations left to draw, but the writer forwent them, realizing he was about to exhaust the distinctive combinations.
Prehaps the glyph-features encode phonetic features, but I doubt it, and lack expertise with Vietnamese phonology to verify that.
amy said,
May 3, 2024 @ 8:39 pm
It's called "find the hidden swastika".
Nat said,
May 4, 2024 @ 12:46 am
er…. what is the post itself saying? "Happened to know this word on a relative's grave… now someone wrote it down…." what?
"I've seen this script on a relative's grave, now someone's taken a photo"? or something else?
AG said,
May 5, 2024 @ 6:42 am
I think I see the St. Regis Hotels logo in there. j/k
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4cHeHhNlzndvuVdpy5Of_BWWT77WZOe7qI4B2hQEmtLTBJX7SulpU8e4&s=10
Rodger Cunningham said,
May 5, 2024 @ 12:15 pm
Nat, let's rate this translation a 2.