{"id":2616,"date":"2010-03-29T13:31:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2010-03-29T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:31:55","slug":"mystery-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"Mystery writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who would like to know if anybody knows what writing system and language it&#8217;s in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/unidentified\/hymnbook.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"329\" alt=\"Mystery writing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The text appears within a Danish hymn book published in 1879.<\/p>\n<p>It looks a bit like cursive Hebrew to me, though appears to be written from left to right.<\/p>\n<p>[Update] Here&#8217;s the full text:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/unidentified\/hymnbook2.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"931\" alt=\"Mystery writing\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who would like to know if anybody knows what writing system and language it&#8217;s in. The text appears within a Danish hymn book published in 1879. It looks a bit like cursive Hebrew to me, though appears to be written from left to right. [Update] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-puzzles","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}