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Varniin

Verdurian - Note that there's a one-to-one correspondence between the Verdurian alphabet and the standard English representation. This is not very naturalistic-- transliteration schemes are not usually this straightforward-- but it's a good place to start. A good alphabet can't be created in a day. This one took shape over a period of weeks, as I played with various letterforms. Note that I supplied upper and lower case forms, as in the Roman and Greek alphabets. The lowercase forms are all cursive simplifications of the uppercase forms (which are also the ancient forms). In retrospect I probably shouldn't have imitated the mixed-case system, which on our world is basically limited to Western alphabets. I should have kept the 'uppercase' forms for ancient times, the 'lowercase' forms for modern times. I tried to give the letters individual histories, as with our alphabet. The letter t, for instance, derives from a picture of a cup, touresiu in Cu?zi; n was origina! lly a picture of a foot (nega). Also note that the voiced consonants, in the uppercase forms, are simply the unvoiced forms with a bar over them (this is a bit obscured with d and t), and that the letters for are all transparent variations of each other. You'll also notice both c and k in the alphabet. This is the sort of ethnocentrism it's all too easy to fall into. Why would another language duplicate the convoluted history of our alphabet's c and k? I've reinterpreted these symbols to refer to /k/ and /q/.

Verentian Phonetic Alphabet - "The work of the scholars of Tirreter was to produce what today we call a phonetic alphabet. Note that the Verentian system does not quite approach the International Phonetic Alphabet, for example. Some sounds the scholars of Tirreter just have not come across. The Verentians use some fifty-two unique symbols which are arranged in a pattern to form a syllable. The dominant character in each syllabic symbol is the vowel. Consonant symbols, of diminutive size, are artistically arranged to fill the space around the vowel, but also located to indicate whether the consonant occurs before or after the vowel. Consonants can also be chained together." - Ken St-Cyr

Vihal

Vlika - Herman Miller writes, "Tirelat is written in the Vlika script, one of the more widespread scripts of Sangari origin. The name Vlika is derived from the first five letters of the alphabet in the traditional order."

Vosh - A script for a fantasy language.

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