Runes
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| Languages | Germanic |
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| Parent systems | Phoenician > Greek alphabet (Euboean variant) > Old Italic > Runic |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Unicode alias | Runic |
| Child systems | Younger Futhark |
| Anglo-Saxon runes | |
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| ID | 1377604 |
About Runes
Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter.