Language of germanic tribes - firstly, alphabets, which used those tribes; secondly, the main written records. Old English scribes used two kindes of letters: the runes and the letters of the Latin alphabet. Runic inscriptions, Ulfila`s Gothic alphabet.
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE CHERNIVTSI YURII FEDKOVYCH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY College of Modern European Languages Department of English Essay: The Development of the Germanic Script Irina Borovik 3rd-year student Group #314 Chernivtsi - 2010 Content 1. Introduction 2. Runic Inscriptions 2.1 Characteristics 2.2 Types of runic inscriptions 2.3 Written records 3. Ulfila`s Gothic alphabet 4. Latin alphabet 4.1 General information 4.2 Written records 5. Conclusion 6. Sources 1. Introduction When we speak about written language of germanic tribes, we mean, firstly, alphabets, which used those tribes; secondly, the main written records [1, 22]. An alphabet is a standardized set of letters - basic written symbols - each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semanic unit, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable