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Choosing the Right Runes to Use

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The Elder futhark, Younger Futhark and AngloSaxon Futhark are the 3 runic alphabets. Which system is the right one for you to use based on the purpose?

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The Elder Futhark (or Fuþark), also known as the Older Futhark, Old Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period. Inscriptions are found on artifacts including jewelry, amulets, plateware, tools, and weapons, as well as runestones in Scandinavia, from the 2nd to the 10th centuries. The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters, in use from about the 9th century, after a "transitional period" during the 7th and 8th centuries. The reduction, somewhat paradoxically, happened at the same time as phonetic changes that led to a greater number of different phonemes in the spoken language, when ProtoNorse evolved into Old Norse. Also, the writing custom avoided carving the same rune consecutively for the same sound, so the spoken distinction between long and short vowels was lost in writing. Thus, the language included distinct sounds and minimal pairs that were written the same. AngloSaxon runes (Old English: rūna ᚱᚢᚾᚪ) are runes used by the early AngloSaxons as an alphabet in their writing system. The characters are known collectively as the futhorc (ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ fuþorc) from the Old English sound values of the first six runes. The futhorc was a development from the 24character Elder Futhark. Since the futhorc runes are thought to have first been used in Frisia before the AngloSaxon settlement of Britain, they have also been called AngloFrisian runes. They were likely to have been used from the 5th century onward, recording Old English and Old Frisian.

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