kiragecko: This is one of the projects I’m working on! It’s a Tree Alphabet for 6 differ
kiragecko: This is one of the projects I’m working on! It’s a Tree Alphabet for 6 different scripts current in 800 AD. Or, at least, the first 4 characters from each of them. Thanks so much to @ohroses for help with the Arabic plant choices. If anyone speaks Gaelic, Khmer, Hindi/Urdu/Sanskrit, any Maya dialect (especially Ch’orti or Ch’ol), or Japanese; and is willing to talk to me about plants, PLEASE message me! First, third, fourth, and fifth rows are read from left to right. Second and sixth rows are read from right to left, and row six should be reoriented so it can also be read from top to bottom. Row 1, Goídelc/Old Irish (There is almost NO depictions of plants in early medieval Irish art. I haven’t figured out how to depict the trees, even though this is the language that inspired the project!) A - Ailm/Pine B - Beith/Birch C - Coll/Hazel D - Dair/Oak Row 2, Classical Arabic ا/Ā - ارز/Arz/Cedar ب/B - بلوط/Ballūṭ/Oak ج/J - جوز/Jawz/Walnut د/D - دردار/Dardār/Elm (Mispelled. Doh!) Row 3, Angkorian Khmer អ/A - អន្គន/ʔAṅgañ/Box-Bean Vine អា/Ā - អាម្រតក/ʔĀmrātaka/Hog-Plum ឥ/I - ឥព្យ/Ibya/Frankincense ឳ/U - ឳលឹក/Ulik/Watermelon Row 4, Sanskrit अ/A - अशोक/Aśoka/Ashoka Tree आ/Ā - आम्ल/Āmla/Tamarind इ/I - इब्य/Ibya/Frankincense ई/Ī - ईशानी/Īśānī/Kapok Row 5, Chol’an/Classical Maya (I kind of made up the character order, based on one comment in an article prompted by the authour seeing some blocks that had paired glyphs lying on the ground.) La - Lah/Nettle្ A - Aaj/Reed Li - (Still working on it) I - Is/Sweet Potato Row 6, Niɸongo/Early Middle Japanese い/I - いちい/Ichī/Yew ろ/Ro - ろうばい/Roubai/Wintersweet は/ɸa - はぎ/Hagi/Bush Clover に/Ni - にれ/Nire/Elm -- source link
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