Sarati Sarati alphabet

Origin

J.R.R. Tolkien created many languages throughout his life. He wrote in one of his letters that the tales of Middle-earth (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilion) grew from these languages, rather than the languages being created for use in the stories.

Tolkien also created a number of different alphabets to write his languages - the Sarati alphabet only appears in a small number of inscriptions in the tales of Middle-earth.

Notable features

Sarati alphabet

Consonants

Sarati consonants

Sample text
Sample text in the Sarati alphabet

Vowel diacritics

Sarati vowel diacritics

Source: http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm

Links

Information about Sarati (includes a free font)
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm

Information on how Sarati can be used to write Quenya
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/sarati.htm

Tolkien's Middle-earth alphabets, by Dan Smith
http://ring-lord.tripod.com/alpha.html

Hebrew modes for Sarati, by Yehuda Ronen
http://my.ort.org.il/tolkien/gandalf/ps/sarati.ps.gz

Sarati typewriter, by Ethan Deneault
http://www.steelangel.com/Sarati/SaratiMacros_v1.zip

Other alphabets invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

Cirth, Sarati, Tengwar, Uruk Runes

Fictional alphabets

Ancients' Alphabet, Ath, Atlantean, Aurek-Besh, Cirth, Daedric, D'ni, Dragon Runes, Futurama Alien Alphabet, Gargish, Gnommish, Golic Vulcan, Hylian syllabary (Old), Hylian syllabary (Modern), Hylian alphabet, Klingon, Kryptonian, Marain, Matoran, Romulan, Sarati, Standard Galactic Alphabet, Tsolyáni (Tékumel), Tenctonese, Tengwar, Utopian, Visitor, Zentlardy

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