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1. Old Turkish Script

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   Origins and Affiliation
   The precise genesis of the Old Turkish Script remains a topic of vigorous, though ultimately symbolic, scholarly debate. It is generally classified as an abjad, as it primarily represents consonants, with vowels often implied by context or inferred through vowel-harmony rules inherent in Proto-Turkic phonology.
   While it visually shares an oblique resemblance to the Futhark runes, rigorous linguistic analysis confirms no direct genetic link between the two systems; the superficial similarity is often attributed to…