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The Skaven Alphabet(http://pariedolia.weebly.com/nimh/the-skaven-alphabet)

The Skaven writing system developed as a series of runes or pictograms. These grew in

number as time went one, now numbering in the thousands, though only a few Skaven

can identify more than a few of the most important ones. The runes tend to have

complex meanings and associations, encompassing several related concepts.

The most frequently used and easily identifiable is the Symbol of the Horned Rat, which

signifies not only the deity of the Skaven but also the Skaven race as a whole. 

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A variation on this shows the common symbol for clanrats:

Other commonly identifiable symbols include the runes of the four greater clans, and afifth rune denoting the order of Grey Seers:

GREY SEERS

As the Skaven developed in the use of magic and technology, the utility of a standardisedalphabet would have quickly been apparent, especially among the Warlock Engineers ofClan Skryre. 

The Skaven alphabet is comprised of 13 letters, approximated in a Latin-based writingsystem as 8 consonants, 4 vowels, and the 13th letter, "X", which primarily serves as anunvoiced mutation. 

Skaven letter-runes are represented by both a Formal and Informal symbol. While itstempting to compare these to upper and lower-cases in English, their application inSkaven writing is nowhere near as consistent. Though it is standard practice that anynouns (proper or otherwise) are begun with a Formal letter, beyond that both symbolsare used pretty much interchangeably, seemingly at whim. 

Another peculiarity of Skaven writing is that, in the case of nouns where a commonlyused pictographic symbol already exists, the rune commonly replaces the first letter ofthe word when written out. This is also the case insofar as when the names of Skavenpersonages are written out, the first letter is often replaced with the symbol for theirclan.

FORMAL LETTER RUNES

   ESHIN MOULDER      PESTILENS SKRYRE

       INFORMAL LETTER RUNES

Besides the Formal and Informal symbols, Skaven will also often use shorthand symbols

for letters that are (see below).

DOUBLED LETTER RUNES

Each Skaven letter rune has a single associated sound ("phone"), unlike less regimental

languages (such as English), where any one letter is used to represent a variety of

. However, the associated with a letter rune may be modified in one of two

ways; by the letter, or with the addition of the 'X' mutation directly preceding a

letter. In this manner, the Skaven alphabet is much more versatile than the small

number of letters implies.

The following guide provides the closest English equivalents of the Skaven letter rune

phones. The structure of the Skaven mouth produces a variety of sounds generally

foreign to human speech. Just as there are a number of   and

phones used by the Skaven that humans can, at best, only approximate, Skaven

themselves are unable to accurately reproduce the common English (p, b, m, w).

Much like a ventriloquist, the Skaven must resort to approximations, often by way of

.

As a general rule of thumb, Skaven vocalizations are higher pitched than English is

typically spoken, & most consonants are , giving the tongue a guttural

inflection. 

Doubled 

phones phoneDoubling

palatal palatal­alveolar

labials

labio­dentals

palatalized

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The Skaven also utilize a simple but effective numbering system

SKAVEN NUMERALS

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