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===The Reform Alphabet=== | ===Alternative Writing Systems=== | ||
====The Reform Alphabet==== | |||
In addition to the standard alphabet (also called the “Standard Literary Alphabet”), Northeadish can also be written with a simplified script called simply the “Reform Alphabet.” Whereas the Standard Literary Alphabet conforms to many of the rules of more traditional Germanic languages such as Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon, &c, the Reform Alphabet is much more consistent with the orthographic conventions of modern Germanic languages like Swedish, Icelandic, or Dutch, and can be a bit of a stickler for function and efficiency at the expense of form and æsthetics. | In addition to the standard alphabet (also called the “Standard Literary Alphabet”), Northeadish can also be written with a simplified script called simply the “Reform Alphabet.” Whereas the Standard Literary Alphabet conforms to many of the rules of more traditional Germanic languages such as Old English, Old Norse, Old Saxon, &c, the Reform Alphabet is much more consistent with the orthographic conventions of modern Germanic languages like Swedish, Icelandic, or Dutch, and can be a bit of a stickler for function and efficiency at the expense of form and æsthetics. | ||
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Punctuation in the reform alphabet uses no special symbols (such as the lowered quotation mark). Single- and double-quotes are written at their standard height and are not kerned with lower punctuation, and only the standard question mark is used. | Punctuation in the reform alphabet uses no special symbols (such as the lowered quotation mark). Single- and double-quotes are written at their standard height and are not kerned with lower punctuation, and only the standard question mark is used. | ||
====The Hyper-Reform Alphabet==== | |||
There is also the “hyper-reform alphabet,” which does not have official status, but is in common use on the internet. It is largely based on the rules of the Standard Reform Alphabet, but, whereas the Reform Alphabet is simplified to the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Unicode Subsets, the Hyper-Reform Alphabet is further simplified to include only twenty-three letters of the Basic Latin set; no Latin-1 Supplement characters are used, nor are ‘c’, nor ‘q’, nor ‘x’. All other sounds are represented by digraphs. | |||
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| '''Aa''' || '''Bb''' || '''Dd''' || '''Ee''' || '''Ff''' || '''Gg''' || '''Hh''' || '''Ii''' || '''Jj''' | |||
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| '''Kk''' || '''Ll''' || '''Mm''' || '''Nn''' || '''Oo''' || '''Pp''' || '''Rr''' || '''Ss''' || '''Tt''' | |||
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| '''Uu''' || '''Vv''' || '''Ww''' || '''Yy''' || '''Zz''' | |||
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Non-alphabetic variants: | |||
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| '''aa''' || '''dh''' || '''ee''' || '''ng''' || '''oa''' || '''aw''' || '''oe''' || '''th''' || '''oo''' || '''ue''' | |||
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