Ethnographic Records
Marukotan: difference between revisions
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| 13 | 13 | - Nahuatl-style suffixes for place, people, and regional forms | |
| 14 | 14 | - Greek and Latin-style prestige affixes for marcher, civic, ceremonial, and noble names | |
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| 16 | + | ## Writing | |
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| 18 | + | Halflings and gnomes share one hand. Full account in [[One Root, Five Hands]]. | |
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| 20 | + | - **[canon]** Thaana-like: short hooks with vowel marks, shared with [[_Kutnylev (Gnomish)]]. | |
| 21 | + | - **[proposed]** The small folk kept the elf ticks as vowel marks and broke the spine into short, separate hooks. | |
| 22 | + | - **[proposed]** Halflings write loose and casual, where gnomes over-annotate. | |
| 23 | + | - **[proposed]** The small folk write left to right, so they read as distinct from the dwarves at a glance. If right to left, they keep unjoined letters instead. | |
| 24 | + | - **[open]** Reading direction is not settled. | |
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| 16 | 26 | ## Usage Pattern | |
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| 18 | 28 | Base pattern: |