Old Alphabet Hint

[SmartyPants]

Can you have a character like the Librarian, the Nameless One, or Rahel give a hint about the Old Alphabet?  In most fiction with ancient languages, the symbols don't actually mean anything, so I didn't think to decipher the Old Alphabet into the English Alphabet.  Before reading a walkthrough, I thought the Old Language was plot-driving, game mechanic instead of a puzzle to be solved.