Ethnographic Records
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| 7 | 7 | speakers: ~12 million | |
| 8 | 8 | status: developing | |
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| 11 | + | # Vardic | |
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| 13 | + | The Central Human language. This note currently carries only the writing system; | |
| 14 | + | the naming framework has not been written. | |
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| 16 | + | ## Writing | |
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| 18 | + | Humans took their hand from their halfling and gnome neighbours. Full account in [[One Root, Five Hands]]. | |
| 19 | + | ||
| 20 | + | - **[canon]** Latinized Thaana: Latin-leaning letterforms with fewer accents. | |
| 21 | + | - **[proposed]** Humans promoted the small folk's vowel marks back into full vowel letters and write left to right. The precedent is real: the Greeks turned spare Phoenician consonant signs into vowels. | |
| 22 | + | - **[proposed]** A few unmistakably Thaana-derived consonant shapes are kept, so Common does not read as English in a funny font. | |
| 23 | + | - **[open]** The hand is shared by every human language, not only Vardic. It is recorded here because the other human notes are empty. |