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ogham, ogam, or ogum (all: ŏg`əm, ō`əm), ancient Celtic alphabet of one of the Irish runic languages. It was used by the druids and abandoned after the first few centuries of the Christian era. The ogham runes runes, ancient characters used in Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian inscriptions . They were probably first used by the East Goths (c.300), who are thought to have derived them from Helleno-Italic writing.
..... Click the link for more information. remain only in gravestone inscriptions inscription, writing on durable material. The art is called epigraphy. Modern inscriptions are made for permanent, monumental record, as on gravestones, cornerstones, and building fronts; they are often decorative and imitative of ancient (usually Roman) methods.
..... Click the link for more information. found mostly in W Ireland and also in England, Scotland, and the Shetland Islands. The origin of ogham is uncertain; it contained 25 letters formed of straight lines and may have been adapted from a sign language sign language, gestural communication used as an alternative or replacement for speech. Sign languages resemble oral languages in every way other than their modality.
..... Click the link for more information. . A treatise on ogham, The Book of Ballymote (15 cent.), confirms that it was a secret, ritualistic language.

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See R. A. Macalister, The Secret Languages of Ireland (1937).

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