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The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ç·, Þ).
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
The runic alphabet used to write Old English before the introduction of the Latin alphabet. Old English was first written in runes, using the futhorc – a rune set derived from the Germanic 24-character elder futhark, extended
Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia but was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives.
Not every English word that contains a gh was originally spelled with a yogh: for example, spaghetti is Italian, where the h makes the g hard (i.e., [É¡] instead of [dÊ’]); ghoul is Arabic, in which the gh was /É£/. The medieval author Orm used this letter in three ways when writing Early
Old English alphabet may refer to: . Anglo-Saxon runes (futhorc), a runic alphabet used to write Old English from the 5th century; Old English Latin alphabet, a Latin-derived alphabet used to write Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries
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