Hebrew as “Deformed English”

 This is a spoof piece based on the charge the characters in the Anthon Transcript are "Deformed English"

 We have come into possession of a work supposedly written in a script called “Aramaic Square Characters” but the language is supposedly called “Hebrew.” While an interesting specimen, the characters are clearly a clumsy hoax, as they are a modified (some would even say deformed) form of the Latin Alphabet with some being based on Arabic numbers.

 

Observe the following similarities (which can be multiplied if needs be):

 

Hebrew Letter/Vowel Point	Latin Alphabet or Arabic Number
א	A and X
כ‎ ג‎ ב‎	Backwards “C”
ד‎ ז‎ ו‎ ך‎	7
ח‎ ה‎	n
ט‎ ע‎	U
ֹ and י‎	The tiddle of “i”
ָ	T
ַ	Subtraction sign (-) and/or underscore (_)
ס‎ ם‎ מ‎	The number 0 and/or the letter o
ק‎	Backwards ‘q’ and/or P
ש‎	W

 

ל

l

Clearly, this “Hebrew language” and its “Aramaic Square script” alphabet is a fraud, as the characters of this book (“Beresheit” [talk about a made up word!]) is nothing more than an amateur re-working of the Latin Alphabet with some modifications to Arabic numbers thrown in!

 

Further Reading

 On "Deformed Egyptian" in the Anthon Transcript