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===The Alphabet=== | ===The Alphabet=== | ||
The Brooding Alphabet itself consists of | The Brooding Alphabet itself consists of 50 seeing characters and 15 blind characters for a total of 65 characters in all. The seeing characters, as discussed above, all represent phonemic sounds in Brooding, with the exception of ''stoot'', which indicates that a blind character will follow. The first sixteen seeing characters are synonymous with and in the order of the first 16 numbers. | ||
The next seven characters are factorials used to create larger numbers. | |||
The origin of the order of the next 24 characters is lost to antiquity, but note that the [[Brooding#Contrasting_Vowels|Contrasting Vowels]] always appear together. The antepenultimate seeing character, ''Seering'' is the only seeing character which does not begin with the sound it represents (/ŋ/). The penultimate seeing character is ''Stoot,'' mentioned above as the only seeing character which does not represent a sound. The final seeing character ''zromed'', is the number ‘zero’. | |||
== Nouns == | == Nouns == | ||