Wikipedia talk:Allrazdobauains

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[edit] Question about Gothic alphabet in relation to other alphabets

Hi! I see on the main page that there are links to the same page written in Runic and Latin alphabets, as opposed to the Gothic alphabet. I'm curious as to whether there is a 1:1 relationship between glyphs in the Gothic/Latin/Runic alphabets, or if there are ambiguations of sorts. Because if there is a 1:1 relationship, it is very much possible to make a tool that automatically transcripts pages (well, the tool already exists, but it would be easy to adapt it for Gothic). If so, could one of the active editors here make a table of Gothic glyphs in comparison with Latin and Runic glyphs? Jon Harald SΓΈby 18:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

There are 28 letters in the Gothic alphabet, 26 if remove the letters representing numbers only. This goes evenly with the Latin Alphabet, but it doesn't go equally into Elder FuΓΎark (the runes that Gothic uses), which only has 24 letters, lacking a letter to represent hwair (𐍈) and a letter to represent quairΓΎa(𐌡). I have a comparision of the alphabets I written for the Gothic Wikibooks tutorial here. I did not add the Elder FuΓΎark equivalents to Gothic Letters which would use two letters. Hwair would equal ᚺᚹ, and QuairΓΎa would equal ᚲᚹ. 𐍇 is another letter which could be transcribed simply as ᚲ, but this would pose a problem because there is also the letter 𐌺, which makes the same sound, though the letter is only used to refer to the Christ, as it is derived from Chi. Also I'm moving this to the actual embassy - the allrazdobauains. The name change was due to the use of a faulty dictionary and a faulty guess on how to compound words. --Jacques Pirat 00:35, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] used font

hi, could you please tell me where i can get the gothic font used at this site? i've got GOTHIC1.TTF but still only see question marks. thanks a lot

That's for Japanese Gothic-Serif charachters, I believe, and not for the actual Gothic Alphabet. The link is on the front page, in Gothic, where you see the only latin text on the page - "Ni saiΖ•is Wikipedja ? DalaΓΎlaΓΎan gutiska meljanboeka!". The link will take you to the area to get real Gothic fonts. Note that these Gothic fonts will most likely fail to be detected on Internet Explorer, but you can try. Also, please sign your posts. Jacques Pirat 02:21, 29 August 2007 (UTC)