Old Anhic language: Difference between revisions

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== Writing system ==

The Old Anhic script ('''Old Anhic''': ''anhāqa qrihman'') is an impure abjad with 19 total glyphs. Eighteen of the glyphs are used to represent consonants, the remaining one is used to indicate a prothetic or long vowel, generally /ɐ/. Words are written left-to-right, top-to-bottom with no spaces or interpunct between them. Diacritics did not originally exist, but a system of dots to indicate the other three vowels in Old Anhic was added later, natively called ''dāhass'' (lit. 'added'). Punctuation also did not originally exist, but a long vertical line was invented to indicate the ends of sentences, natively called a ''sttāhāss'' ('the standing').

[[File:Oldanhicwriting2.png|thumb~~|780x780px~~|A line from the ''Zgqavha'', a prayer written in Old Anhic (''recreated on computer)'']]

[[File:Oldanhicwriting2.png|thumb|A line from the ''Zgqavha'', a prayer written in Old Anhic (''recreated on computer)'']]

[[File:Oldanhicbasenumbers2.png|border|thumb|297x297px|Old Anhic's base numbers]]

Vowels are not written, except for '''/ɐː/''' wherever it occurs, and if a word begins in a vowel, it is indicated with the vowel symbol. Geminates are also not indicated, but the act of writing a consonant twice was used later to indicate gemination.

[[File:Oldanhicnumberexamples.png|thumb|297x297px|Examples of numbers and their values in Old Anhic]]

Numbers were written using a modified tally mark system. A vertical line had the value of '1'. A forward-diagonal, akin to '/' had the value of '2'. A backward-diagonal like '\' had the value of '5'. An X-like character had the value of '10'. Addition was written from left-to-right and multiplication was written from top-to-bottom in blocks.

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 == Writing system ==
 The Old Anhic script ('''Old Anhic''': ''anhāqa qrihman'') is an impure abjad with 19 total glyphs. Eighteen of the glyphs are used to represent consonants, the remaining one is used to indicate a prothetic or long vowel, generally /ɐ/. Words are written left-to-right, top-to-bottom with no spaces or interpunct between them. Diacritics did not originally exist, but a system of dots to indicate the other three vowels in Old Anhic was added later, natively called ''dāhass'' (lit. 'added'). Punctuation also did not originally exist, but a long vertical line was invented to indicate the ends of sentences, natively called a ''sttāhāss'' ('the standing').
-[[File:Oldanhicwriting2.png|thumb|780x780px|A line from the ''Zgqavha'', a prayer written in Old Anhic (''recreated on computer)'']]
+[[File:Oldanhicwriting2.png|thumb|A line from the ''Zgqavha'', a prayer written in Old Anhic (''recreated on computer)'']]
+[[File:Oldanhicbasenumbers2.png|border|thumb|297x297px|Old Anhic's base numbers]]
+Vowels are not written, except for '''/ɐː/''' wherever it occurs, and if a word begins in a vowel, it is indicated with the vowel symbol. Geminates are also not indicated, but the act of writing a consonant twice was used later to indicate gemination.
+[[File:Oldanhicnumberexamples.png|thumb|297x297px|Examples of numbers and their values in Old Anhic]]
+Numbers were written using a modified tally mark system. A vertical line had the value of '1'. A forward-diagonal, akin to '/' had the value of '2'. A backward-diagonal like '\' had the value of '5'. An X-like character had the value of '10'. Addition was written from left-to-right and multiplication was written from top-to-bottom in blocks.