Celtic 5x7 word writer by erictom333

erictom333

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4th May 2016

4th May 2016

Credit to Sanwichlizard for actual typewriter. For Celts.

runes

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  Technomancer 5th May 2016
  Look it up on Wikipedia (I know, not always a reliable source, but I checked and in this instance it's good). Search for 'ogham' and 'futhark', read the first couple of paragraphs of each, then compare the illustrations of both alphabets to the script you have used here. While it doesn't exactly match either, it's clearly closely related to the Norse characters, while not really resembling the Celtic ogham alphabet.
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  Technomancer 5th May 2016
  The Celts very likely adopted the Norse alphabet because they didn't have one of their own. It's like referring to our own alphabet as 'English letters' - they're not. We adopted our letters from the Romans and our numbers from Arabic. Likewise, while the early Celts would very probably have known and used the futhark script, they didn't create it and it's misleading to describe it as Celtic. It's just their variant or dialect of an already-existing alphabet.
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  erictom333 4th May 2016
  But I got it from the Horrible Histories book, Cut-throat Celts.
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  Technomancer 4th May 2016
  However, +1 anyway, for promoting obscure knowledge (even if not quite accurate!)
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  Technomancer 4th May 2016
  That's not Celtic. That is some variant of the futhark, the Old Norse runic alphabet. Runes were a major influence and possible origin of the Ogham script, AFAIK the earliest distinctively and definitely Celtic alphabet, which however differs significantly from the Norse alphabet. But the characters you have here predate any written Celtic language by several centuries.