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09-14-2011 , 04:50 PM
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I'll stop holding you guys up, gg.

pretty sure it's the origin of modern hebrew script, so probably wrong anyways, was just trying guess something.
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ok i think i might have the hang of this momentarily

persian- that's gotta be its own alphabet amirite?
Taken as Pahlavi. (Modern Persian generally uses Arabic alphabet, but Persian seems to imply the specific one.) Good.
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09-14-2011 , 04:53 PM
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I'll stop holding you guys up, gg.

pretty sure it's the origin of modern hebrew script, so probably wrong anyways, was just trying guess something.
You mean Samaritan then. Good.
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We will go again at :55. Not sure who's still in.
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Samaritan good!
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come at me gad

i'm an alphabet xpert
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You mean Samaritan then. Good.
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09-14-2011 , 04:55 PM
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Ibav, Dean, and Gad still in.

Round 3, GO!
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Yes, the Samaritan thing was intentional btw.
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Irish/Gaelic/whatever

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slavic seems like it might be an alphabet
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can i use this next round or is it also a subset of roman

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meh I remembered samaritan later, but what I meant was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashuri_alphabet

which has already been answered. Already looked at the list so I am out.
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Irish/Gaelic/whatever
Called Ogham, apparently. Good.

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slavic seems like it might be an alphabet
Slavic languages use the Cyrilic alphabet.
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09-14-2011 , 04:58 PM
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meh I remembered samaritan later, but what I meant was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashuri_alphabet

which has already been answered. Already looked at the list so I am out.
Sorry it wasn't listed and my google led me astray.

Thanks for playing.
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i'm racking my brain here and i can't think of anything that's not roman or cyrillic so i'm just going to guess ancient cultures

mayan alphabet one time
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So far, only Gad is through. I'll give Dean through :41.
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So far, only Gad is through. I'll give Dean through :41.
No fair that he gets 42 minutes.
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i'm racking my brain here and i can't think of anything that's not roman or cyrillic so i'm just going to guess ancient cultures

mayan alphabet one time
They used symbolic scripts, so no good.

Our winner is...

Gadarene!

Congratulations, Gad; thanks everyone for playing.
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thanks for running atak, i had fun even though this category was out of my league

gg gad
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Would you have accepted braille?
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did the incans have an actual alphabet because i almost guessed that instead
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very nice gad

thanks for running atak
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The whole list is on this page — I included true alphabets, abjads, and abugidas.

And yes, I realize this was stupidly hard. Y'all are good sports.
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