Timeline for Does anyone know what this fantasy script is from?
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| Jun 17, 2017 at 9:57 | comment | added | ninjalj | @DmitryNarkevich: I've seen it called a proto-alphabet, a consonantary, or an abjad. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 18:46 | comment | added | Dmiters | @ninjalj but the Phoenician alphabet is called an alphabet despite not having vowels! | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 8:01 | history | bounty ended | Gallifreyan | ||
| Jun 6, 2017 at 11:50 | comment | added | RLH | This is like a considerably less engaging version of Gold Bug by Edgar Allen Poe. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 7:07 | comment | added | Mithical | We need your decoding skills over at Puzzling! | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 6:26 | comment | added | Marq | @poepje What ninjaij said! See the excellent [omniglot](www.omniglot.com) for more information and examples. | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 22:47 | comment | added | ninjalj | @poepje: an alphabet is a script with consonants and vowels. As opposed to syllabaries, abjads (e.g: Hebrew and Arabic, where symbols represent consonants (or, arguably, the class of syllables with a given consonant), and short vowels are represented in modern times via diacritics), abugidas (e.g. Devanagari, Tibetan, where symbols represent syllables with an implied vowel, and can be modified to have a different vowel), pictographic scripts, ideographic scripts, logographic scripts, ... | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 22:15 | comment | added | paddotk | @Marq An alpabet is a script based on the Latin or Greek scripts. Runes, Chinese characters, hieroglyphs; they're all scripts but not alphabets. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 10:59 | comment | added | Marq | @poepje An alphabet is a type of script, and since this is a simple cypher for the English alphabet, it's also an alphabet. | |
| S Jun 2, 2017 at 17:26 | history | suggested | Shokhet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
link to referenced answer
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| Jun 2, 2017 at 17:13 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jun 2, 2017 at 16:01 | comment | added | paddotk | @Hurkyl To be more specific, it's script, not alphabet. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 10:33 | comment | added | user12616 | You mean 'alphabet', not 'language'. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 8:48 | vote | accept | James Mccoon | ||
| Jun 2, 2017 at 0:36 | comment | added | Kerr Avon | Yep...I'm up voting Adele's but gotta up-vote yours for decoding effort! | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 0:13 | history | edited | santyclause | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
giving credit where it is due
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| Jun 1, 2017 at 19:23 | history | answered | santyclause | CC BY-SA 3.0 |