Linguistic Records
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| 14 | 14 | - Estonian-style suffixes and endings for locality, terrain, and people forms | |
| 15 | 15 | - Greek and Latin prestige affixes for imperial, ceremonial, or ancient state names | |
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| 17 | + | ## Writing | |
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| 19 | + | The dwarven hand, and the alphabet drafted for it, are recorded in [[One Root, Five Hands]]. | |
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| 21 | + | - **[canon]** Right to left, joined along a baseline, leaning toward Farsi in flow. Carving a flowing hand into stone is a flex expected of dwarven craftsmen. | |
| 22 | + | - **[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 | + | - **[canon]** Refugees add helper marks in daily writing, for both vowel and tense. | |
| 24 | + | - **[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. | |
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| 17 | 27 | ## Usage Pattern | |
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| 19 | 29 | Base pattern: |