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Name Eloranta Site Eloranta Script Image If image fails to load, try this link. Site Language English Author Mattias Persson Script Type Alphabet Description Eloranta is the usual writing system used by the elves in Mathasia. The name Eloranta means 'Writing of Life' (the word is built from 'elf', which means 'life' -- a variant of Lappish and Finnish 'ello', which also means 'life' -- and 'ranta', 'writing'). There is a second set of tone marks, which are written as diacritics, above the vowel characters, they look like the tone marks given in the picture, but are smaller. These are sometimes used, when there are no long vowels (whose dots would interfere with the small marks, if these were used). The normal tones are denoted with the usual five-level system used for Mandarin Chinese. Usually, particular tribes of elves do not use all of the above symbols, and some of them are very rare, for example the first, the fifth and last two symbols in the 'Glottal' row. The first four symbols in the 'Miscellaneous Consonants' box are Epiglottals, which are also very rare. Influences Probably, the elves long ago have seen some samples of Quenya or Sindarin Tengwar writing, since the Eloranta system is similar in structure to Tolkien's writing systems (this is also the origin of the system). The vowels, however, are derived from Herman Miller's wonderful Lh?rr-t?k phonetic writing system. Four of the five 'regular' tone marks are the same as in the Pinyin writing system for Chinese. The marks that look like our ".",":",";", and ",", are derived from the missionary Fraser writing system used in the south-eastern part of the continent Asia on distant Earth. Submitted By Mattias Persson Date Submitted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Date Edited Tuesday, February 10, 2004 Date To Headline Saturday, March 06, 2004 < Eloram Glyphs  Eloranta  Embelyon >
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