
Ogham (Old Irish language Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages that was probably often written in wood in early times. The main flowering of the use of "classical" Ogham in stone seems to be 5th century–6th century. Monumental Ogham inscriptions are found in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, and the Isle of Man, mainly employed as territorial markers and memorials. The more ancient examples are standing stones, script being carved into the edge (''droim'' or ''faobhar'') of the stone, which forms a stemline against which individual characters are cut. Text is read beginning from the bottom left-hand side of a stone, continuing upward, across the top and down the right-hand side in the case of long inscriptions. Inscriptions written on stemlines cut into the face of the stone, instead of along its edge, are known as "scholastic", and are of a later date (post 7th century). Notes were also commonly written in Ogham in manuscripts down to the sixteenth century. Some people have theorized that Ogham could also be used as a secret gestural cypher, because of its structure: the fingers of one hand, using the nose or shin or any other "straight" edge as a stemline could, it is suggested, be used to signal individual Ogham letters, which, it is asserted, could be readily read by an Ogham practitioner. There doesn't appear to be any evidence to support this theory. The Ogham alphabet consists of twenty-five distinct characters (''feda''), the first twenty of which are considered to be primary, the last five (''forfeda'') supplementary. The four primary series are called ''aicmí'' (plural of ''aicme'' "family"). Each aicme was named after its first character (''Aicme Beithe'', ''Aicme hÚatha'', ''Aicme Muine'', ''Aicme Ailme'', "the B Group", "the H Group", "the M Group", "the A Group"). Some of the names and all of the values of the forfeda are open to question. Ogham is sometimes referred to as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet". ==See also== * Runic alphabet ==External links== * [http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/ogmharc.html Every Ogham Thing on the Web] * [http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham/ Celtic Ogham] - by Curtis Clark Alphabetic writing systems Irish language ga:Ogham
The Ogham (pronounced "ohm") alphabet was used by the Irish in the first centuries AD. It consists of vertical lines with dots and dashes. Ogham inscriptions are found in Spain and Portugal as well as Ireland. ---- All of the links are dead! ~ user:FriedMilk 4/2/04 @ 13:02 EST ---- There should be an image here, of both vertical and horizontal Ogham... == Alphabet? == There was actually more than one Ogham alphabet. Although one is best known, the Book of Ballymote notes a number of ogham alphabets, quite different in style. :No, there's only one ''alphabet'', with letters Beith, Luis, Fearn, Sail, Nion and so on. Ballymote does give a number of "cryptic" Oghams, which are properly treated as font variants of Ogham. I've dabbled with some cryptic Ogham fonts myself. (This is a bit interesting, and perhaps should be in the article.) User:Evertype 10:36, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC) == "Celtic Tree Alphabet" is not a synonym == I dislike this a lot. Ogham is not traditionally called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", and indeed the Ogham letter-names did not originally all refer to trees. I'd like to see this deleted from the first line. Perhaps we could talk about Ogham folklore, including the trees, at some stage. But this "synonym" is not really a gloss, and shouldn't be in bold in the first line. User:Evertype 15:45, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC) *I've moved it to the bottom, the term seems to be in use, so it should be mentioned somewhere. User:Kappa 17:47, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) I don't remember giving anyone permission to copy the image (which I hand drew with a mouse in MS paint in 1998; hence the astounding quality) from my websitehttp://ogham.lyberty.com. Creative Commons licensing still requires that the "author" grant permission... Not a big deal, and I don't mind it being here, but still, there's the principle of the thing.... p.s. Listen to Evertype; he knows what he's talking about! User:Liberty Miller 12 May 2005 :No offence, but it's not a very good image anyway. I'll find something nicer. User:Evertype 08:03, 2005 May 13 (UTC) ::No offence taken -- see the ironic reference to "astounding quality". :-) (though I do think it has kind of an appropriate roughly carved look to it). User:Liberty Miller 13 May 2005
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Ogham (Old Irish language Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages that was probably often written in wood in early times. The main flowering of the use of "classical" Ogham in stone seems to be 5th century–6th century. Monumental Ogham inscriptions are found in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, and the Isle of Man, mainly employed as territorial markers and memorials. The more ancient examples are standing stones, script being carved into the edge (''droim'' or ''faobhar'') of the stone, which forms a stemline against which individual characters are cut. Text is read beginning from the bottom left-hand side of a stone, continuing upward, across the top and down the right-hand side in the case of long inscriptions. Inscriptions written on stemlines cut into the face of the stone, instead of along its edge, are known as "scholastic", and are of a later date (post 7th century). Notes were also commonly written in Ogham in manuscripts down to the sixteenth century. Some people have theorized that Ogham could also be used as a secret gestural cypher, because of its structure: the fingers of one hand, using the nose or shin or any other "straight" edge as a stemline could, it is suggested, be used to signal individual Ogham letters, which, it is asserted, could be readily read by an Ogham practitioner. There doesn't appear to be any evidence to support this theory. The Ogham alphabet consists of twenty-five distinct characters (''feda''), the first twenty of which are considered to be primary, the last five (''forfeda'') supplementary. The four primary series are called ''aicmí'' (plural of ''aicme'' "family"). Each aicme was named after its first character (''Aicme Beithe'', ''Aicme hÚatha'', ''Aicme Muine'', ''Aicme Ailme'', "the B Group", "the H Group", "the M Group", "the A Group"). Some of the names and all of the values of the forfeda are open to question. Ogham is sometimes referred to as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet". ==See also== * Runic alphabet ==External links== * [http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/ogmharc.html Every Ogham Thing on the Web] * [http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham/ Celtic Ogham] - by Curtis Clark Alphabetic writing systems Irish language ga:Ogham
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The Ogham (pronounced "ohm") alphabet was used by the Irish in the first centuries AD. It consists of vertical lines with dots and dashes. Ogham inscriptions are found in Spain and Portugal as well as Ireland. ---- All of the links are dead! ~ user:FriedMilk 4/2/04 @ 13:02 EST ---- There should be an image here, of both vertical and horizontal Ogham... == Alphabet? == There was actually more than one Ogham alphabet. Although one is best known, the Book of Ballymote notes a number of ogham alphabets, quite different in style. :No, there's only one ''alphabet'', with letters Beith, Luis, Fearn, Sail, Nion and so on. Ballymote does give a number of "cryptic" Oghams, which are properly treated as font variants of Ogham. I've dabbled with some cryptic Ogham fonts myself. (This is a bit interesting, and perhaps should be in the article.) User:Evertype 10:36, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC) == "Celtic Tree Alphabet" is not a synonym == I dislike this a lot. Ogham is not traditionally called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", and indeed the Ogham letter-names did not originally all refer to trees. I'd like to see this deleted from the first line. Perhaps we could talk about Ogham folklore, including the trees, at some stage. But this "synonym" is not really a gloss, and shouldn't be in bold in the first line. User:Evertype 15:45, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC) *I've moved it to the bottom, the term seems to be in use, so it should be mentioned somewhere. User:Kappa 17:47, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) I don't remember giving anyone permission to copy the image (which I hand drew with a mouse in MS paint in 1998; hence the astounding quality) from my websitehttp://ogham.lyberty.com. Creative Commons licensing still requires that the "author" grant permission... Not a big deal, and I don't mind it being here, but still, there's the principle of the thing.... p.s. Listen to Evertype; he knows what he's talking about! User:Liberty Miller 12 May 2005 :No offence, but it's not a very good image anyway. I'll find something nicer. User:Evertype 08:03, 2005 May 13 (UTC) ::No offence taken -- see the ironic reference to "astounding quality". :-) (though I do think it has kind of an appropriate roughly carved look to it). User:Liberty Miller 13 May 2005
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