Re: VMs: Newbie's two cents worth

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> a traveller or a medic from Northern Italy,
> who had learnt a couple of obscure dialects during his travels,
> and wrote his notes in a those dialects, in an alphabet he invented

Let's make this hypothesis even weirder and speculate that some traces of the Etruscan language
survived in some mountain valleys into the late 1300's :-)
But I bet that even this one has been discussed already (I seem to vaguely remember this)

But I wonder why anyone - who was supposedly literate - would invent his own alphabet. All the
european languages used more or less the same writing system (disregarding greek, runic and ogham),
But it's an interesting proposition. Are there any examples of local mid-european writing that do
not use the roman-derived characters?


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