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Runic alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Runic type=Alphabet languages=Germanic languages time=Elder Futhark from the 2nd century AD. fam1=Phoenician alphabet fam2=Greek alphabet (Cumae variant) fam3=Old Italic alphabet sisters=Latin alphabet children=Younger … Wikipedia
runic alphabet — ▪ writing system also called futhark writing system of uncertain origin used by Germanic peoples of northern Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from about the 3rd century to the 16th or 17th century AD. Runic writing appeared rather… … Universalium
Runic script — Rune redirects here. For other uses, see Rune (disambiguation). Runic Type Alphabet Languages Germanic languages Time period … Wikipedia
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… … Wikipedia
Runic calendar — Rune staffs at the Museum of History in Lund, Sweden. A Runic calendar (also Rune staff or Runic Almanac) is a perpetual calendar based on the 19 year long Metonic cycle of the Moon. Runic calendars were written on parchment or carved onto … Wikipedia
alphabet — n. 1) the Arabic; Cyrillic; Greek; Hebrew; Latin; Phoenician; Sanskrit alphabet 2) a phonetic; runic alphabet * * * [ ælfəbet] Cyrillic Greek He brew Latin Phoenician Sanskrit alphabet a phonetic: runic alphabet the Arabic … Combinatory dictionary
alphabet — Synonyms and related words: IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabetics, art, basics, beginning, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, commencement, conventional representation,… … Moby Thesaurus
Östergötland Runic Inscription 165 — Runestone Name … Wikipedia
Runic inscriptions — A runic inscription is an inscription made in one of the various runic alphabets. The body of runic inscriptions falls into the three categories of Elder Futhark (some 350 items, dating to between the 2nd and 8th centuries AD), Anglo Frisian… … Wikipedia
