• Vitaly
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    66 months ago

    Kind of looks like the writing system of Georgian language but I’m not sure

    • @[email protected]
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      206 months ago

      No, this is Glagolitic script, an alternative to Cyrillic. Mostly used in old Slavic scriptures, was later replaced by Cyrillic and Latin.

      Most Slavs themselves don’t know how to read this

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        It’s a dead script that was not that common in the first place, in Kievan Rus’ it was even used as a form of encryption in XI—XVI centuries for how little spread it was. It is also very different from modern Cyrillic. So, saying “most Slavs don’t know how to read it” is a bit of an understatement. Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.

        • @[email protected]
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          36 months ago

          It was widespread in Croatia until the late middle ages, about XIV-XV century.

          Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.

          I could fluently read and write it in high school. Was bored.

          • @[email protected]
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            6 months ago

            Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolitic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn’t looking good enough.

            • @[email protected]
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              36 months ago

              Is it some kind of historical elective course

              No, there was a poster showing correspondence with Latin on the wall, somewhere. The symbols are almost 1-1 with modern orthography, so it takes only about a week of practice. And I was really bored.

              never seen Glagolic in the wild

              It’s about as distant from modern use as runes are for germanic speakers, but maybe with different connotations. Decorative nonsense.

              But I did submit essays written with that when I wanted to fail with style. :)

              I also met a guy in college who used it to keep notes. That guy was also bored.

            • Redex
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              16 months ago

              I mean regular people don’t know how to read it, except if you randomly decided you wanted to. It’s pretty big culturally, e.g. the Baška tablet is a very important piece of history written in glagolitic that everyone knows about, and I’ve seen the alphabet randomly displayed in a few places, but nobody actually uses it today.

    • @[email protected]
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      166 months ago

      Nah, Georgian is arcs and circles everywhere, like this: ეს ქართული დამწერლობაა.