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22type: language
33name: Karakeel
44family: Dwarven
5+script: Dwarven hand, draft 3 (Farsi-leaning)
56spoken_in: the Mountainholms, the range of the five Kords
67status: developing
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2223- **[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.
2324- **[canon]** Refugees add helper marks in daily writing, for both vowel and tense.
2425- **[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.
26+- **[canon]** The hand is settled: draft 3, Farsi-leaning, 20 letters including the `dz` ligature and the dotted s for `š`, so Sahdzakoda and Šohdzakoda are both spellable. See [[One Root, Five Hands]].
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2728## Usage Pattern
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