Editing Midnight - Language Lexicon (section)

===Alphabets===
Most of the major languages of Eredane, if written at all, use unique, traditional alphabets. 
*  '''''High Elven''' and '''Jungle Mouth''' share an alphabet, and though the spoken tongue of the halflings is significantly different, the written language uses the same 38 letters as High Elven.''
*  '''''Old Dwarven''' does not use an alphabet and is recorded in pictographs instead. There are thousands of these, and learning to read and write Old Dwarven actually requires that a character take four additional ranks in the language, rather than just two. Those clan dialects very similar to Old Dwarven share its library of pictographs, but most clan dialects have no written version.''
*  '''''Trader’s Tongue''' is written primarily in Elven script, but a greatly simplified version that has, over the centuries, incorporated elements from the other alphabets of Eredane.''
*  '''''Norther''' has a simple alphabet of 18 letters, which is the linguistic reason its pronunciation is so vowel heavy.''
*  '''''Colonial''' and '''Courtier''' share the same linguistic roots and use the same 30-letter alphabet. Erenlander, despite or perhaps because of its Norther influences, uses a 23-letter subset of the Sarcosan alphabet.''
*  '''''Orcs''' do not have a written language, and so both Orcish and '''Black Tongue''' lack alphabets entirely. When missives are sent among the elite of the Shadow’s minions, Erenlander is most often used.''