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Dhingion Niginair
Dhingion Niginair - letters of the Wise - is the alphabet developed by Pieter Rottiers to write his conlang,
Dardanian. It's characters are loosely based on the Futhark, though they are usually written vertically, from top to
bottom and from left to right.

Internal history
The alphabet is said to be designed by Thinle the Seeress herself, though some historians find that hard to
believe.

The Dhingion have known a long and dynamic evolution, mostly depending on the ups and downs of the cultural
life in Dardaniell. It started as an adaptation of the Futhark by the Barbaroi: since this nomadic people could only
use their writing on parchment (huge slabs of stone are peculiarly hard to drag around), they didn't need their
alphabet to be as straight and hard as the original one. The adaptation they invented could be written with a
brush of pen. It took the other people in Dardaniell a while (over two hundred years) to discover the great
improvement of the alphabet. It took them another ten years to change the whole administrative system. Since those days
the Dhingion have been further developed by several writers, scholars, magicians and noblemen. The variant explained
here is the one used in the second half of the fifth century, during the Golden Age of the Eastern Kingdom.

Dhingion Niginair alphabet

Consonants

Vowels
In Dardanian vowels and vowel groups are written as diacritics on the right side of the vertical guiding bar, between the
two consonants that surround them. Examples:

Diphthongs can be created by putting the first vowel to the right of the second. Example:

Punctuation

Numerals

Sample text in the Dhingion Niginair alphabet

Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should
act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Download a Dhingion Niginair font (TrueType format, 11K)

If you have any questions about the Dhingion Niginair alphabet, you can contact Pieter Rottiers at

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