About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Alphabet, Alphabets of Asia Minor, Alphabet of the Magi, Avestan alphabet, Bhujimol, Caucasian Albanian alphabet, Chakma alphabet, Cirth, Clear script, Coptic alphabet, Cyrillic script, Defective script, Deseret alphabet, Druidic alphabet, Duployan shorthand, Elbasan alphabet, Featural alphabet, Fraser alphabet, Glagolitic alphabet, Gothic alphabet, History of the alphabet, Interlac, Letter (alphabet), Letter case, Manchu alphabet, Mandaic alphabet, Meroitic alphabet, Mongolian script, N'Ko alphabet, New Tai Lue alphabet, Ogham, Old Permic alphabet, Old Persian cuneiform, Old Turkic alphabet, Ol Chiki alphabet, Osage alphabet, Passing the river, Pre-Islamic scripts in Afghanistan, Quikscript, Runes, Sorang Sompeng alphabet, Tengwar, Theban alphabet, Tifinagh, Two-handed manual alphabets, Varang Kshiti, Vithkuqi alphabet, Zaghawa alphabet. Excerpt: Kana (From Chinese Character) 8 c. AD Hangul (partly from Brahmic) 1443 Cherokee (partly from Latin and Greek) c. 1820 Vai (unknown, possibly from Cherokee) c. 1830 Zhuyin ( Bopomofo, from Chinese) 1913 Yi Script (Origin not known) after the 1970s became syllabicRunes (Proto-Norse: (runo), Old Norse: run) are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fu ark (derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U,, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc or fu orc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the same six letters). Runology is the study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic linguistics. The earliest runic inscriptions date...
