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> I thought runes were like pictographs, each one had a meaning, and maybe several readings or sounds. various hieroglyphic writing systems are pictographics.
by k8tte 11y ago
> I thought runes were like pictographs, each one had a meaning, and maybe several readings or sounds.
various hieroglyphic writing systems are pictographics. runes are not
- smegel 11y agoSo what are runes then? Does the Latin alphabet consist of runes?
- ars 11y agoRunes to you sound like mystical shapes, or words or something. It's not so. It is simply the name of an alphabet, much like you have Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Coptic, etc. You have Runic. That's all. It's just the name for an alphabet.