Monday, August 24, 2020

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

כגב

Backwards “C”

דזוך

7

חה

n

טע

U

ֹ and י

The tiddle of “i”

ָ

T

ַ

Subtraction sign (-) and/or underscore (_)

סםמ

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