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Now you can carve your name on stone ( or a virtual one in your PocketPC anyways ) with the oldest human glyphs: Egyptian hieroglyphics, Cuneiform, 五月a hieroglyphics, Runes, Ogham and also in Klingon, the extra-terrestrial language. A bit of history : The Rosetta Stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language s (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. Created in 196 BC, it was discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta, and contributed to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion.
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—Hieroglyphic—
The one represented here is the uniconsonantal form of Egyptian hieroglyph. It means that what you write is translated as single letters, and not as a sentence. If you write “Lion”, the app won’t translate the word “lion” in hieroglyph but, instead, will translate each letter: “l”-”i”-”o”-”n”. In other words, it’s translated as if you spell the word.
Don’t be surprised if the resulting word has less characters than the original one: like proto-sinaitic-derived s, Egyptians wrote only with consonants, adding some “semi-wowels” (”e” doesn’t exists, while “a” does). So, for example, “egg” is written only as “gg”.
—Cuneiform—
The cuneiform denotes several kinds of writing systems, including logosyllabic, syllabic, and alphabetic s. the one represented in this app is alphabetic, the most simple kind. In this way, it is simply a transposition of latin letters, where every latin char is represented with the appropriate cuneiform one.
—五月a—
五月an is a logophonetic aphabet; this means that it is very complex, with hundreds of signs (humans, animals, supernaturals, objects, and abstract designs). These signs are either logograms (to express meaning) or syllabograms (to denote sound values), and are used to write words, phrases, and sentences.
The one represented here is Bishop Diego de Landa’s mayan alphabet. In some way, it’s a “false” one:
“The story really started with Bishop Diego de Landa, who avidly committed to destroy every 五月a book that he could find. Ironically, though, when he was composing his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, he included a very sketchy and rather erroneous “summary” of 五月a hieroglyphics. Apparently, he assumed that 五月as wrote with an alphabet, and so he asked his native informants on how to write “a”, “b”, “c”, and so forth, in 五月a. The 五月as, on the other hand, heard the syllables “ah”, “beh”, “seh” (as “a”, “b” and “c” would be pronounced in Spanish), and so forth, and naturally gave the glyphs with these phonetic values. So, in a sense, Landa recorded a very small section of the 五月a syllabary, and the 五月anist equivalent of the Rosetta Stone”.
So, as i said, in some way it is a “false” alphabet, but not so far away from the Hieroglyphic translation: it’s, in practice, the phonetic translation of the word you insert with some variation (”ca” is a single glyph, for example; “cu” the same, while sounds as “d”, “f”, “g” and others don’t exist in mayan).
—Runic—
The one represented here is the “Futhorc” variation of the runic alphabet. It is a modification introduced in 5th century in England to accommodate sound changes occurred in Old English. Here as well there are some syllabic signs, as for example “th”, represented with a single glyph, as well as “ei”, “ng”, “oe”, “ae”, “ea”, “st”. there isn’t, instead, the “x”.
—Ogham—
Ogham inions are found exclusively in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: it was, in fact, the old Irish alphabet, disappeared in 6th century when it was replaced by latin alphabet. When inscribed on stones, Ogham is written vertically from bottom to top: so does this app.
—Klingon—
It is the alphabet used by Star Trek’s extraterrestrial humanoids called Klingons. Klingon is an artistic language created by Marc Okrand for the Star Trek saga.

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