Ethnographic Records
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| 15 | 15 | - Nahuatl-style suffixes for place and people forms | |
| 16 | 16 | - Greek and Latin-style prestige affixes for imperial, civic, and ceremonial names | |
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| 18 | + | ## Writing | |
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| 20 | + | The elf hand is the root of every script in Areshnaat. Full account in [[One Root, Five Hands]]. | |
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| 22 | + | - **[canon]** The elves wrote first. Every other people's script descends from this hand. | |
| 23 | + | - **[canon]** Vertical, in the Mongolian manner: a spine running top to bottom with ticks and loops off either side, columns read left to right. | |
| 24 | + | - **[canon]** Elves write vowels as full letters. Every other hand demotes them to marks, except the human one, which promotes them back. | |
| 25 | + | - **[proposed]** Corrected ticks: left of the spine for the deep vowels (a, o, u), right for the forward vowels (e, i). Turned clockwise this becomes the above/below split the dwarven refugee marks use, so that split would be inherited from here. | |
| 26 | + | - **[open]** The redraw with corrected ticks, and the five-hand family tree, have not been produced. | |
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| 18 | 28 | ## Usage Pattern | |
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| 20 | 30 | Base pattern: |