Unicode Rune ᛗ

Unicode Rune Characters

Here's a keyboard with runic keycaps.

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What's Runic Script

Runic Script were used for several rune alphabets around year 150 to 1500.

Rune alphabets was used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet.

Germanic languages includes:

• North Germanic: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese.
• West Germanic: English, German, Dutch.
• East Germanic (extinct): Gothic.

4 major Runic alphabets are:

• Elder Futhark. Used around year 100 to 800.
• Anglo-Saxon runes. Used around year 400 to 1100.
• Younger Futhark. Used around year 900 to 1100. It has 2 variants, called Long-branch and short-twig.
• Medieval runes. Used around year 1100 to 1500.

Elder Futhark

Anglo-Saxon Runes

Younger Futhark, long-branch

Younger Futhark, short-twig

Medieval Runes

See also: Emacs: Latin to Rune (ᚱᚢᚾᛖ)