Rune Orthography

[Thomas Chelmowski]

Hails Thomas,

As far as I know (and I am only a writer, not a scholar) the Goths had no written language until it was created with the specific purpose of translating the bible.
  I would assume that once they had an alphabet (Greek) why would they want to invent yet another unless it would make it understandable to another reader who was ignorant of the Greek characters.  (that, I would guess, would be the Latin characters)

That is why my question about the oral traditions.


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 From: thomasruhm <thomas at ruhm.at>
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Subject: [gothic-l] Rune Orthography
 

  
Hello,

does Gothic have other orthographic conventions if it is written in runes compared to roman alphabet? Are differences made between 'ai' and 'e' and 'au' and 'o'?

/Thomas (one of them)


 

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