INTRO / question about elder futhark

[Francisc Czobor]

As far as I remember, the Wulfilan letter TH (þiuþs), U (uris) and O 
(oþal) are from Runic.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> wrote:
>
> I'm not very familiar with the research, but in my understanding, 
the  
> Wulfilan Gothic alphabet begins with the Greek alphabet, and later  
> picks up useful features from the Roman alphabet. Of the spoken  
> letters, only þiuþs, hvair, and possibly jer, are specifically 
Gothic  
> innovations. I'm not too familiar with the substitution of the  
> Cyrrillic che-symbol for the Greek qoppa-symbol for the numeral 
90,  
> but it is found in Gothic and may be found in some Greek forms as 
well.
> 
> Wulfilan Gothic lacks the useful letter ingwaz.
> 
> The Elder Futhark lacks the useful letters qairþra and hvair.
> 
> The symbols rarely correspond.
>


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