Tool to translate Oghamic writing (Ogham) that uses a medieval and celtic alphabet with horizontal and vertical lines.
Ogham Alphabet - dCode
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Ogham Alphabet
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Tool to translate Oghamic writing (Ogham) that uses a medieval and celtic alphabet with horizontal and vertical lines.
Answers to Questions
How to encrypt using Ogham cipher?
The Ogham language uses an alphabet composed mainly of 20 basic symbols corresponding to certain letters of the classical Latin alphabet. There are sometimes other rare symbols that appear in manuscripts that are combinations of letters.
The encryption is performed by a replacement of the Ogham symbols by 20 letters of the alphabet.
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dCode replaces the missing Latin letters with others: J=>I, K=>Q, P=>NG, V=>U, W=>U, X=>Z.
Some Oghamic writing have been writent from top to bottom and not from bottom to top.
How to decrypt Ogham cipher?
Decryption simply requires the correspondence between the letters of the alphabet Ogham our usual Latin alphabet.
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is decoded OGHAM
How to recognize Ogham ciphertext?
The Ogham symbols generally follow a vertical or horizontal line. The message is composed of bars, sticks, horizontal and vertical lines.
What are the variants of the Ogham cipher?
The writing can be vertical or horizontal.
What is the Ogham Alphabet (Unicode)?
The Ogham alphabet is included in the Unicode standard, here are the characters:
| ᚁ | ᚂ | ᚃ | ᚄ | ᚅ | ᚆ | ᚇ | ᚈ | ᚉ | ᚊ | ᚋ | ᚌ | ᚍ | ᚎ | ᚏ | ᚑ |
| ᚒ | ᚓ | ᚔ | ᚕ | ᚖ | ᚗ | ᚘ | ᚙ | ᚚ | ᚛ | ᚜ |
When Ogham have been invented?
About the 4th century
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