Rune

A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages before they... Wikipedia

• Type:  Alphabet
• Languages:  Germanic languages
• Time period:  Elder: ~1st–9th c, Anglo-Frisian: ~5th–9th c, Anglo-Saxon: ~9th–12th c, Younger: ~8th–11th c, Stung: ~11th–13th c, Medieval: ~13th–18th c, Dalecarlian: ~16th–19th c.
• Parent systems:  Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Greek alphabet Old Italic (possibly) Runic
• Child systems:  Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon futhorc
• Unicode range:  U+16A0–U+16FF
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo