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There are several common abbreviations found in Northeadish, most inherited from early Germanic writings in Old English or Old Norse. The following symbols are considered proper for most writing in Northeadish: | There are several common abbreviations found in Northeadish, most inherited from early Germanic writings in Old English or Old Norse. The following symbols are considered proper for most writing in Northeadish: | ||
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| [[File:Northeadish-ampersand.gif|&]] || ænðþ, ōc, iah, ōɧ || This is equivalent to the ampersand used in most modern writing. It can stand in for all translations of ‘and’. When used to replace the suffix ‘-ōɧ’, it is written as if it were a letter of the word. | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-thet.gif]] || þa, þɴ, þet, þas, þer, þᴍ || This character fills in for any declension of the definite article, though in some texts or scenarios it may be appropriate to add a letter to indicate case or number. | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-het.gif]] || het, hī, hes, hem, hen || Like the previous symbol, this originally stood for the proximal definite article, though now it has been relegated to the neuter pronoun ‘it’ and is sometimes also used as an abbreviation for the masculine ''hī''. | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-thaet.gif]] || þæt || This symbol stands in for the subordinate conjunction ''þæt''. | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-xer.gif]] || -r, -ʀ || The raised comma may be added to particles (determiners, pronouns, prepositions, &c) to indicate a rhotic ending. It is sometimes used in longer words to indicate a plural or masculine declension, though this is not generally acceptable in professional writing. The most common examples can be found below. | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-ther.gif]] || þer || This symbol, while widely used, is more correctly transcribed as ''þr'' in professional writing (see above). | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-her.gif]] || her || ‘her, hers’ | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-ner.gif]] || ner || ‘noöne’ | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-hwer.gif]] || ƕer || ‘who’ | |||
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| [[File:Northeadish-tel.gif]] || tel || This indicates the preposition ''tel''. This differs from other abbreviations using the raised comma in that the rest all indicate some form of rhotic (either ‹r› or ‹ʀ›). | |||
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====Morphographemes: Scribal Shorthand==== | ====Morphographemes: Scribal Shorthand==== | ||
In addition to the common abbreviations above, some texts use a sort of “scribal shorthand” which takes the place of most common inflections of both nouns and verbs, as well as adjectives (if they are inflected at all). Most commonly, this type of shorthand replaces pronouns with a single-character signifier, surrounded by periods, appended to the front of their accompanying verb. Inflection of the verb is thereby also elided. In cases where i-umlaut occurs in the paradigm (usually in the second and third person singular), the vowel may optionally change, or a raised comma may be added to the vowel. | In addition to the common abbreviations above, some texts use a sort of “scribal shorthand” which takes the place of most common inflections of both nouns and verbs, as well as adjectives (if they are inflected at all). Most commonly, this type of shorthand replaces pronouns with a single-character signifier, surrounded by periods, appended to the front of their accompanying verb. Inflection of the verb is thereby also elided. In cases where i-umlaut occurs in the paradigm (usually in the second and third person singular), the vowel may optionally change, or a raised comma may be added to the vowel. | ||