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Thallanar
December 16, 2019

Writing in Dovahzul

I'm trying to learn how to write the Dovahzul alphabet and I am finding that transcribing the runes is pretty difficult. I don't know if I'm just not used to it yet, but most of the runes I try to copy look almost nothing like what they appear on the website's alphabet page. I am currently doing it by hand using a pen and paper. Does anyone have any recommendations to get them to look more neat and uniform or is it just simply a matter of practice? Took me about 30 minutes to write down all 34 runes.

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Zinrahzul
December 16, 2019

Try to think of writing Dovahzul runes as a student practicing Chinese/Japanese kanji or other characters. Writing runes consists of the following marks (My own description): Punctures, Gouges and scratches. 

- A PUNCTURE is where the claw would insert straight into the writing surface (like in [g])

- A GOUGE is where the claw enters the writing surface in order to form a SCRATCH, will then go a certain direction to form the parts of a rune.

For example, the [g] rune has a puncture in the lower left, followed by a small vertically-down scratch where the claw enters the stone and travels down. Finally, the claw gouges diagonally and scratches from up-right to down-left. 

Here's my advice for writing using a pen:

For PUNCTURES, you can use a simple dot. 

For GOUGES and SCRATCHES, you can think of them as the number "7", but the top 
"flag" marking is really short. That's how I write them. That's easy for scratches going from top-down or diagonally up-down. For the horizontal ones ([k] and [n]) and vertical-upward ones (parts of [ey] and [m]), you have to just adjust your hand to get it right. 

To get a consistent form for the scratches, try this: With a pen, form the top flag of a scratch by running the pen from left to right a really small distance. After that, flick the pen in the downward position (as opposed to running the pen along the paper evenly). This will produce the tapered edge of the end/bottom of the scratch.

Now all that's left to do is to practice each rune meticulously to get them looking good.

 


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Sonaak Kroinlah
December 16, 2019

I would say to worry less about perfection and more about legibility. Are the runes you write recognisable as what they are? Certainly you'll likely never be able to totally match the perfection of a computer (although I may be biased as my own writing is not particularly neat). And practice will definitely help! Part of why it's slow is because you're having to think carefully about each letter you write whereas with Latin (English) you do it essentially on autopilot. With practice Dovahzul will become like that too although it will always be slightly slower by it's very design. Personally I found using a felt pen or writing on a whiteboard much easier in the early stages so that might help too.


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