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They kind of resemble Arabic writing. Especially the words "adder", "fed", "hit" or "city".
by maksimur 3y ago
They kind of resemble Arabic writing. Especially the words "adder", "fed", "hit" or "city".
- LAC-Tech 3y agoIsn't there a theory that writing medium effects scripts? IE the angles of Runes lended themselves well to carving. And something about left-to-right scripts was to avoid smudging. So I wonder the writing medium Arabic was for. Roman Alphabet does lend itself reasonably well to stone work I feel. Or is that one of those linguistic myths that doesn't play out like that.
- silversmith 3y agoThere might be some stretches of imagination there, but the base is solid - cuneiform writing was definitely formed by the medium (pressing a cut reed into clay).
- bradrn 3y agoI don’t think it’s a myth at all. Arabic was written with a reed pen or ‘qalam’ [0], and that can certainly be seen in the modern script (e.g. [1], to take the first random example I found). But its ‘joined-up’ nature seems to have been a regional style — it’s also found in scripts like Syriac, Avestan, Mandaic, Manichaean, and even the delightfully bizarre Bactrian Greek (there’s some nice samples in [2]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalam [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mppajQ7TLGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mppajQ7TLGs [2] https://greekasia.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-bactrian-language-and-its-greek.html https://greekasia.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-bactrian-language...