Ogham thoughts – Frank McNally on a new artwork, an old alphabet, and the longest word in Irish
It’s mentioned in an ancient treatise on grammar, Auraicept na n-Éces (“Instruction of the poets”), thought to date from the ...
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A Man In England Was Weeding His Garden When He Came Across A Stone Inscribed With A 1,600-Year-Old Message Written In A Rare Irish Alphabet
However, the lines were actually carved in ogham, an alphabet used to write the early Irish language after the fourth century. From the sixth to ninth centuries, it was used to write Old Irish.
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Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden
Ms Gilmore said another theory was that it could have been used by Irish tradesmen to make contact with each other. The team said Ogham was highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting ...