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Sorry if this is double - Quarinteen - 12-11-2022
I thought I posted this question but I don’t see it. So I will once more. I recently learned of the paleo Hebrew alphabet. To me it looks similar to ancient Scandinavian alphabets. Does anyone know if ancient Scandinavian alphabets may have their root in paleo Hebrew? Best example is the letter d for both. It is the same glyph
RE: Sorry if this is double - ctjacobs - 12-13-2022
(12-11-2022, 05:50 PM)Quarinteen Wrote: I thought I posted this question but I don’t see it. So I will once more. I recently learned of the paleo Hebrew alphabet. To me it looks similar to ancient Scandinavian alphabets. Does anyone know if ancient Scandinavian alphabets may have their root in paleo Hebrew? Best example is the letter d for both. It is the same glyph
To me the most striking difference is that runes don't have a letter for the aleph even though words that both start in pronounciation with aleph do rhyme
RE: Sorry if this is double - Chavak - 12-13-2022
Maybe Jason can shed some insight on it.
RE: Sorry if this is double - robrecht - 12-14-2022
I don't know anything about ancient Scandinavian, but I do see a few similarities. The paleo-Hebrew alphabet is essentially Phoenician, which had wide influence across the Mediterranean, essentially serving as the basis for the current Greek and Latin alphabets so there could be some indirect influence through these languages. I don't see a lot of influence 'though.