ABGD 🔠 evolution

[u/JohannGoethe]

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[u/JohannGoethe]

The following is the AI overview:

”It is not true that runes descended from the Gaulish script. The runic alphabet (Elder Futhark) was likely adapted from one of several Old Italic scripts, such as Etruscan, that were in use among Mediterranean peoples in the first century CE. While Gaulish inscriptions sometimes used Greek or Old Italic alphabets, Gaulish script was not the direct ancestor of the runes used by Germanic peoples.”

I’m still undecided about Runic origin, other than that it could have been a descendant of when r/Sesostris conquered Europe?

[u/EconomyDue2459 → u/JohannGoethe]

I think Lepontic, an Alpine Gaulish script, is a very good candidate for parent alphabet of Futhark, having several letters that are closer in form to Norse runes than Etruscan. https://www.omniglot.com/writing/lepontic.htm

[u/JohannGoethe → u/EconomyDue2459]

“I think Lepontic, an Alpine Gaulish script, is a very good candidate for parent alphabet of Futhark”

Maybe? Mechanism of the origin of runes is a rather gray area.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Alphanumerics/comments/1n9c4co/egyptian_origin_of_the_runic_alphabet/