Ethnographic Records

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Vardic

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The Central Human language. This note currently carries only the writing system; the naming framework has not been written.

Writing

Humans took their hand from their halfling and gnome neighbours. Full account in One Root, Five Hands.

  • [canon] Humans use a Latin script. It is described elsewhere as a Latinized Thaana: Latin-leaning letterforms with fewer accents.
  • [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.
  • [open] Whether a few unmistakably Thaana-derived consonant shapes are kept, so Common does not read as English in a funny font. "A Latin script" may mean the Thaana inheritance is not visible on the page.
  • [open] The hand is shared by every human language, not only Vardic. It is recorded here because the other human notes are empty.

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