Should we use the Runic alphabet (which we actually used to use, but that was almost a couple of millennia ago) rather than the Roman alphabet (which we currently use)? Of course we should! Let’s see why.

Our Roman alphabet, which we sometimes call the Latin alphabet, was first used by the ancient Romans in order to write Latin. (Well, duh.) The Runic alphabet was used by the ancient Anglo-Saxons and Norsemen in order to write the precursors of English and the Scandinavian languages — and by J.R.R. Tolkien in order to write some of the languages of Middle Earth, which is more likely to be where you’ve seen these characters. For more info, see https://www.acondia.com/fonts/runes/info/hobbit.htm . Better yet, watch this short video by Rob Watts, and you will see “why we should go back to writing in runes”:

Categories: Linguistics