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kdj

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Please help identify the language on page of old text
« on: July 23, 2016, 01:58:24 pm »
Could someone please help identify the language that the  text  is written in,  on this page? I was told it is from a religious text.  It is framed and under glass. It is at least vintage - again - from what I was told.
Thank you very much

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Re: Please help identify the language on page of old text
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2016, 02:21:31 pm »
Looks middle eastern,,Arabic but which country,,no clue !!  If so it probably is in a language or dialect that is not used today !!

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Re: Please help identify the language on page of old text
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2016, 02:30:43 pm »
 I agree - Middle East - Arabic -   this is going to bug me. I had a thought about the person whose estate sale this came from and there is a Jewish connection there... what do you think?

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Re: Please help identify the language on page of old text
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2016, 03:40:49 pm »
Someone previously said "arabiuc script and possibly an Indo-Persian language, it may be a page from a Koran or a Sufic text". No one is sure.
 If this is so, maybe I can find what it's age is.
Thank you!

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Re: Please help identify the language on page of old text
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2016, 02:42:12 pm »
My guess would be a page of text from the Quran, possibly North African Arabic.