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The orthography of the Old Norse language was diverse, being written in both Runic and Latin alphabets, with many spelling conventions, variant letterforms, and unique letters and signs. In modern times, scholars established a standardized spelling for the language. When Old Norse names are used in texts in other languages, modifications to this spelling are often made. In particular, the names of Old Norse mythological figures often have several different spellings. == Latin alphabet orthography == The following table gives various attested spellings of sounds and their IPA transcription. In general usage, an orthographic distinction of phones or phonemes is not necessarily held by every writer. For example, an author may only distinguish some vowels by length, and orthographic devices could be mixed and matched. Where the table lists a long-or-short phoneme /(ː)/, a specifically short // or long /ː/ phoneme represents additional spellings not covered by length marking rules. Likewise, a phonetic entry only lists spellings not used by the equivalent phoneme(s). N/A is used when no specific spelling is used, e.g. where all long vowel spellings are found using the rules for deriving long vowel spellings from the short vowel, or no general spelling is used, e.g. when short and long vowels are always spelled differently. Legend: * U: Unstressed * E: Chiefly eastern * : Long or short. See columns for length and gemination marking. The low/low-mid vowels may be indicated differently: * = * = * = Dialect-specific sounds: * : Icelandic; a, aa, á, o, ó,〔Cleasby-Vigfússon: (Málsnjallr-Máttigr ); Mánuðr, alternated with mónoðr〕 ǫ́; Normalized: á * : Danish; e, æ When dialectal mergers such as OEN monophthongization took place, regional spelling often changed to reflect this. Sometimes, both phonemes' spellings would be used, but confused. The epenthetic vowel had different regional spellings. In East Norse it was commonly spelled as or , while in West Norse it was often spelled , almost always so in Iceland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old Norse orthography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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