Entity Language?

aoifepink · February 2021

So I know I'm super late to the party and there has been some discussion surrounding this for a few years- but the odd language we see on some of the weapons: " 'anoyk yeqkany'ye hvay'k l'gnoo eydok'x sekall'o ammkix "

A few places on reddit say it has been solved as a form of language like Urdu, or something similar to Cthulhu etc. But I dunno... I'm an archaeologist and I've been studying dead languages for about 10 years or so now, and my gut is telling me this doesn't fit a language, their are too many glottal stops in the odd places that don't make sense linguistically and no real discernible affixes.

I've been having a gander over the weekend, trying out a few things that have already been suggested: most simple ciphers don't work. The language translated into Urdu and a few others, comes back way too inconsistent or random things like "First time I saw a squirrel in the woods", which i can't understand how that makes sense.

But! what if its a playfair cipher? So the whole sentence can be split into pairs of two, if we account for the glottal stops or ' being marks replacing letters we don't have: like they're missing. Of course, with this we would need a key word to work. I've been trying to think of key words obscure but related: Death; Baker; Light, Hunter, Arcus, Stamp. We'd need a five to six letter word. I've been omitting the letter 'j' as that's what normally is, but we can't count on that.

Just curious, and food for thought. Any suggestions?