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Runes (Proto-Germanic *rūnō 'rune'; *rūna-stabaz 'runic letter') 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.

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 Dinesh
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes#:~:text=Runes%20(Proto%2DGermanic%20*r%C5%ABn%C5%8D,and%20for%20specialised%20purposes%20thereafter

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The runic alphabet has 24 letters, arranged in a peculiar order known as the ‘futhark’ after its first six letters. Here it is written from left to right, but it could be written from right to left equally well in early times, or seven boustrophedon. And individual letters could also be reversed on occasions, apparently with whim, and might even be inverted. There are no distinction capital and lower-case letters. - page 179
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 Dinesh
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The vast majority of European scripts derive from the Roman letters -- which has tended to obscure the existence of one significant European script, the runic script, whose links with the Roman script are less certain. From as far back as the 2nd century AD, runes have been found that were used to record the early stages of Gothic, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, English, Frisian, Frankish and various tribal tongues of central Germania. These peoples were therefore not illiterate, as sometimes thought, before the period when they became Christian and began to use the Roman alphabet.

There was a range of runic scripts, reflecting the range of languages involved. The total number of known runic inscriptions is probably in the region of 5000, almost all of which are located in Nordic countries. The great majority are in Sweden, where discoveries of rune stones are still frequently made. Norway has over 1000 inscriptions, and Denmark some 700; Iceland has about 60, and from comparatively late times, and there are also runic texts from Greenland, and the Faroes. Some of those in Britain, found in the Isle of man and in the Orkneys, Shetlands, Ireland and Western Isles, are the work of travelling Norsemen; Anglo-Saxon England has, in addition to several issues of coins with runic legends, some 70 inscribed objects; Germany about 60; elsewhere in Europe there is a scattering of runes.

The runic alphabets has 24 letters, arranged in a peculiar order known as the “futhark” aftr its first six letters. Here it is written from left to right but it could be written from right to left equally well in early times, or even boustrophedon. An individual letter could also be reversed on occasions, apparently at whim, and might even be invented. There was no distinction between capital and lower-case letters ~ Page 177 / 178

The runic alphabet has 24 letters, arranged in a peculiar order known as the ‘futhark’ after its first six letters. Here it is written from left to right, but it could be written from right to left equally well in early times, or seven boustrophedon. And individual letters could also be reversed on occasions, apparently with whim, and might even be inverted. There are no distinction capital and lower-case letters. - page 179
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