germanic alphabets

theme: theme: lesson 5: vocabulary of germanic languages theme: yokutkhon rakhmonkulova germanic alphabets germanc tribes used 3 (three) different alphabets for their writings. these alphabets partly succeeded each other in time. the earliest of these was the runic alphabet, each separate letter being called rune. runes have a very peculiar look for eyes accustomed to modern european alphabets. next comes ulfila's gothic alphabet (4th century). this is the alphabet of ulfila's gothic translation of the bible, a peculiar alphabet based on the greek alphabet, with some admixture of latin and runic letters. in editions of the gothic text a latin transcription of the gothic alphabet is used. the latest alphabet to be used by germanic tribes is the latin alphabet. …

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