i was told that they are glyphs meaning something. other wise ther just to look cool.

 

The GW guys probably just made up a whole lot of cool looking symbols and stuck them in on random. I mean, they have to spend most of their time thinking of ways to make Space Marines even more powerful, so they most likely never made a Necron alphabet:grin:

 

Not all cultures use a written alphabet (yes, in the 21st century, some still don't).
Some use ideograms and pictograms (where pictures or symbols have a meaning, not specific words or letters) and get by quite well without needing one.

Must it be an alphabet? Look to kanji, or katakana, or in 40k, the eldar language, for example.

Just saying.

 

even if they do mean somthing only lords have enough soul or sanity left to understand or care about them

 

remember lords only have acess to their memories. also im with chromedog learn the katana alphabet of japanese or kanji i learnt it in year 7 and tought my sister it just last year to help her get through here year 7 test also my friend did it for 9 and 10. japansese is alot better looking then stupid glyphs of necrons

 

The icons and symbols of the necrons have nothing to do with their alphabet, the icons just represent them like the aquila symbols the imperium, and the different symbols that represent the different elder craftworlds.

the necron alphabet only consists of two numbers/letters..... 0 and 1
their alphabet is exatcly the same as the binary code, which is the language for computer and mechanical devices.

 

I disagree with you on that. Binary isn't a language. When two software agents communicate they don't just use 1's and 0's they would have some sort of protocol based upon alphanumerics.

Also using a series of 0's and 1's doesn't tell you anything, because a byte or series of bytes doesn't tell you what format the information is encoded in, like ASCII or integer, or floating point number etc...

So judging by the decals and the Egyptian theme of the Necrons I would have to guess that yes they have a written language based upon glyphs just like the Egyptians used.

 

That actually makes sense cus i dont really think there would be a point to displaying words or sentances on the necrons themselves, the Glyphs most likey just symbalize what tomb world they originate from or maybe what C'tan they worship, either way tho i like the concept and i think it would b cool if GW made some basic form of Necron Alphabet :biggrin:

 

The Glyphs represent a symbol of power and knowledge for the necrons. Perhaps it is a language but necrons surely won't tell us!
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