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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").
Each rune most probably had a name, chosen to represent the sound of the rune itself according to the principle of acrophony. The Old English names of all 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, along with five names of runes unique to the Anglo-Saxon runes , are preserved in the Old English rune poem , compiled in the 7th century.
A few sounds are instead written with the same rune, without considering the English spelling. For example, the sound / ɔː / is always written with the rune whether in English it is spelt o as in north , a as in fall , or oo as in door . The only two letters that are subject to this phonemic spelling are a and o . [21] Finally, some runes ...
The j rune was rendered superfluous due to Old Norse sound changes, but was kept with the new sound value of a. The old z rune was kept (transliterated in the context of Old Norse as ʀ) but moved to the end of the rune row in the only change of letter ordering in Younger Futhark. The third ætt was reduced by four runes, losing the e, ŋ, o ...
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet's P, [4] or Q, [citation needed] or from the Rhaetic's alphabet's W. [5] As with þ, the letter wynn was revived in modern times for the printing of Old English texts, but since the early 20th century, the usual practice has been to ...
Pronunciation of English th Sho (letter), Ϸ, a similar letter in the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language; Yogh, Ȝ, a letter used in Middle English and Older Scots; Wynn, Ƿ, another runic letter used in Old English; Eth, Ð, another Old English and Icelandic letter
The stung Úr ᚤ primarily carried the sound value ⓘ and corresponds to the letter y in the Latin alphabet (unicode name: Runic Letter Y), but it also carries the sound value ⓘ and seldom even ⓘ, the latter of which was also carried by the stung Fé ᚡ (unicode name: Runic Letter V).
With many words at this point, there is no difference between Kentish and what became the dominant West-Saxon form of English. Other words indicate possible differences in pronunciation (or, at least, of transcribing), such as fremde/ fræmde or gonge/ gange. However, there is little doubt that, even with minor differences in syntax and ...