what language is this, anyone know?

[Snake2715]

Playing a scenario paintball game and they hand us coordinates to decipher.... Any help would be great...

 

[thirdrose]

I'm just guessing, but it looks like Persian to me. It's something I know absolutely nothing about.

 

[looploop]

Is there a reason you think it's Persian and not Arabic, Urdu or anything else written in Arabic script?

 

[DD83]

I was bored...
According to google translate.

ﺪﺮﺟﻪ ﺷﻤﺎﻝ و ﻏﺭب
Is
Degrees North and West
Which would make
ﺪﺮﺟﻪ
At the end there
Degrees

So that should make it
42 degrees north and west 28,035 56,673 083 degrees.

I don't quite get the way the numbers are laid out though.

 

[thirdrose]

[quote name='looploop']Is there a reason you think it's Persian and not Arabic, Urdu or anything else written in Arabic script?[/QUOTE]

No reason at all. It's just the first thing that popped into my head when I saw it. I should expand my previous post to say that I know nothing about any languages.

 

[Snake2715]

Google goggles claimed dari which apparently is Persian... Still didn't decipher it. Oh well at the game still, bit its nearing the end of the last day.

Thanks maybe the coordinates are backwards?

 

[DD83]

Shouldn't be backwards.
Arabic is read right to left, except for numbers.

 

[berzirk]

It could still be arabic. All of those letters are definitely arabic, whereas Persian has a couple of extras, but it's possible that none of those extra letters appear. I can read this text, I just don't know what it means.