Here’s a chunk of cryptic text that looks like Latin at first glance, early Latin, in a 13th-century script. To read it, you need to remember a few things about old-style script…<\/p>\n

In the early medieval period, they wrote letters differently…<\/p>\n

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• “a” was written like two cees joined\u2014”cc”,<\/li>\n
• “t” was small and round like a “c”,<\/li>\n
• “e” was sometimes written without a crossbar, and sometimes with a longer embellished crossbar,<\/li>\n
• the stem of the “i” sometimes had a slight curve, similar to the rounded “t”,<\/li>\n
• a common style of “r” had a long foot on the bottom (it almost looks like a square cee), and<\/li>\n
• roman numerals with several ones in a row or words with two “i” chars at the end, usually added a descending tail to the last one so it looks like a “j”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  I won’t keep you in suspense any longer. Here’s the cryptic text with a rough transliteration:<\/p>\n

  <\/a><\/p>\n

  The transliteration doesn’t have to be perfect to demonstrate that there’s something a bit weird about this text.<\/p>\n

  What language is it? It looks vaguely like early medieval Latin, but the common words aren’t there, and it’s somewhat more repetitive than one would expect.<\/p>\n

  Is it another language expressed with Latin characters?<\/p>\n

  I’ll let you think about it before I provide further information.<\/p>\n

  J.K. Petersen<\/em><\/p>\n

  \u00a9 Copyright 2018 J.K. Petersen, All Rights Reserved<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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