Ethnographic Records
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| 2 | 2 | type: language | |
| 3 | 3 | name: Karakeel | |
| 4 | 4 | family: Dwarven | |
| 5 | + | script: Dwarven hand, draft 3 (Farsi-leaning) | |
| 5 | 6 | spoken_in: the Mountainholms, the range of the five Kords | |
| 6 | 7 | status: developing | |
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| 22 | 23 | - **[canon]** Tense lives in the stroke: present is the baseline, past is thicker, future leans about 5 degrees, timeless takes a curled cap, and verbs are always capped. | |
| 23 | 24 | - **[canon]** Refugees add helper marks in daily writing, for both vowel and tense. | |
| 24 | 25 | - **[proposed]** The hand is the elf column turned 90 degrees clockwise: top-to-bottom becomes right-to-left, the spine becomes the baseline, the side ticks fold into marks above and below. | |
| 25 | − | - **[open]** The drafted alphabet has 18 consonants and no letter for `dz` or `š`, so it cannot spell `dza` or Šohdzakoda. See [[Dwarves and Duergar]]. Needs a draft 3. | |
| 26 | + | - **[canon]** The hand is settled: draft 3, Farsi-leaning, 20 letters including the `dz` ligature and the dotted s for `š`, so Sahdzakoda and Šohdzakoda are both spellable. See [[One Root, Five Hands]]. | |
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| 27 | 28 | ## Usage Pattern | |
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