Modern English Runes

This is a modern runic alphabet for writing Modern English. It is named Younger Futhorc since it is based on Futhorc, which wrote Old English and Old Frisian. One of the main goals when creating this system was to not deviate from runic precedent needlessly like so many other modern runic alphabets do.

RUNE SOUND EXAMPLE STATUS ᚠ /f/, /v/ wolf / wolves ~untouched ᚢ /u/, /ʊ/ root / put ~untouched ᚦ /θ/, /ð/ sheath / sheathe ~untouched ᚩ /ow~əw/ go tweaked ᚱ /ɹ/, /ɜ~ɝ/ road / tar tweaked ᚳ /tʃ/ chin ~untouched ᚷ /j/ year ~untouched ᚹ /w/ win ~untouched ᚻ /h/ hail ~untouched ᚾ /n/ need ~untouched ᛁ /ɪ/, /i/ bin / bean ~untouched ᛡ /j/ year ~untouched ᛇ /x/ ugh! ~untouched ᛈ /p/ plot ~untouched ᛉ /ks/, /gz/ rex / exit ~untouched ᛋ /s/, /z/ cats / dogs ~untouched ᛏ /t/ toad ~untouched ᛒ /b/ birch ~untouched ᛖ /ɛ/ edge tweaked ᛗ /m/ man ~untouched ᛚ /l/ law ~untouched ᛝ /ŋ/, /ŋg/ song / finger ~untouched ᛞ /d/ day ~untouched ᛟ /ʌ/, /ə/ son repurposed ᚪ /ɑ/ father ~untouched ᚫ /æ~a/ fat ~untouched ᛠ /æɑ/ N/A untouched ᚣ /y/ N/A untouched ᛣ /k/ king ~untouched ᚸ /g/ gore ~untouched

COMBO	SOUND	EXAMPLE	STATUS
ᚳᚷ	[dʒ] / [ʒ]	bridge	assumed
ᚻᚹ	[ʍ]	which	~untouched
ᛋᚳ	[ʃ]	fish	~untouched
ᛖᚱ	[ɜ~ɝ]	bird	repurposed
ᛖᚷ	[ɛj]	grey	~untouched
ᚫᚢ	[aw]	mouse	assumed
ᚫᚷ	[aj]	chai	tweaked

• Not everyone speaks English the same way, so tweak the rules to suit your speech.
• For aesthetic reasons, I recommend not using ᛟ for /ə/ in unstressed syllables; for a word like "about" I recommend ᚪᛒᚫᚢᛏ not ᛟᛒᚫᚢᛏ.
• If your dialect has /ɒ/, consider using ᚩᚢ for /ow~əw/ so that you can use ᚩ for /ɒ/.
• If you need a way of writing /ɔ/, consider ᚪᚢ.
• If you want to keep /ɪ/ and /i/ apart, consider using ᛁᚷ or ᛠ for /i/.
• For non-rhotic kinds of English, ᚱ can indicate vowel length (ᛣᚪᚱ can be /kɑː/).
• I recommend not allowing ᛉ to cross morpheme boundaries; for "sax" and "sacks" I recommend ᛋᚫᛉ and ᛋᚫᛣᛋ. This recommendation is based on how Old English scribes generally used the Latin letter ⟨x⟩.
• ᚷ can be /j/ before ᛁ, ᛖ, ᚫ. To represent /j/ before ᚢ, ᚩ, ᛟ, ᚪ one can use ᚷᛁ (Franks Casket style) or ᛡ (Shropham Lead Plaque style).
• I use ᛖ as a kind of question mark, since it can stand for "eh?".

EXAMPLES

ᚦᛖᚷᛖᚱ᛬ᚹᛟᚾᛋ᛬ᚹᛟᛋ᛬ᛖᚷ᛬ᛗᚫᚾ᛬ᚠᚱᛟᛗ᛬ᛈᛖᚱᚢ᛬ᚻᚢ᛬ᛞᚱᛖᛗᛏ᛬ᚻᛁ᛬ᚹᛟᛋ᛬ᛁᛏᛁᛝ᛬ᚻᛁᛋ᛬ᛋᚳᚢ᛬ᚻᛁ᛬ᚹᚩᛣ᛬ᚹᛁᚦ᛬ᛖᚷ᛬ᚠᚱᚫᚷᛏ᛬ᛁᚾ᛬ᚦᛁ᛬ᛗᛁᛞᛚ᛬ᛟᚠ᛬ᚦᛁ᛬ᚾᚫᚷᛏ᛬ᛏᚢ᛬ᚠᚫᚷᚾᛞ᛬ᚦᚫᛏ᛬ᚻᛁᛋ᛬ᛞᚱᛁᛗ᛬ᚻᚫᛞ᛬ᛣᛟᛗ᛬ᛏᚱᚢ
There once was a man from Peru who dreamt he was eating his shoe. He woke with a fright in the middle of the night to find that his dream had come true.

ᚻᚹᛖᚾ᛬ᚫᛚᚠᚱᛖᛞ᛬ᚫᚢᚱ᛬ᛣᛁᛝ᛬ᛞᚱᚩᚠ᛬ᚦᛁ᛬ᛞᛖᚷᚾ᛬ᚠᚱᛟᛗ᛬ᚦᛁᛋ᛬ᛚᚫᚾᛞ᛬ᚻᛁ᛬ᛋᛁᛞᛖᛞ᛬ᛖᚾ᛬ᚩᛣ᛬ᚹᛁᚦ᛬ᚻᛁᛋ᛬ᚩᚾ᛬ᛣᛁᛝᛚᛁ᛬ᚻᚫᚾᛞ
When Alfred our king drove the Dane from this land he seeded an oak with his own kingly hand.

ᚹᛁ᛬ᚻᚩᛚᛞ᛬ᚦᛁᛋ᛬ᛏᚱᚢᚦ᛬ᛏᚢ᛬ᛒᛁ᛬ᛋᛖᛚᚠᛋᛟᛏᛚ᛬ᚦᚫᛏ᛬ᚪᛚ᛬ᛗᛖᚾ᛬ᚪᚱ᛬ᛒᚩᚱᚾ᛬ᛁᚠᛖᚾ
We hold this truth to be selfsuttle: that all men are born even.

ᚻᚹᛟᛏ᛬ᚹᚢᛞ᛬ᚻᚫᛈᚾ᛬ᛁᚠ᛬ᚹᛁᚷ᛬ᛗᛁᛉᛏ᛬ᚷᚱᛁᚷᚾ᛬ᛖᚾ᛬ᚱᛖᛞ᛬ᛖ
What would happen if we mixed green and red?