The Gnomish script

[Le_Psit 280]

*far away, in the lands of The Shire, a certain 
Gnome dressed in blue robes works all night 
writing* 
“Finally, I have cracked this mysterious script, a 
big step in Gnomish history; I hope my kin will 
appreciate my discovery” 
*he says as he adds the final details, before heading 
to his bed* 

 
THE GNOMISH SCRIPT, AN 
INTRODUCTORY GUIDE 

 
Priva my fellow Gnomes and friends, I, Merwin the 
Fool have made a great discovery on Gnomish 
history. As long as I can remember the elders that I 
grew up with and the ones I met on my travels, all 
had these charms made of birch bark. 
 

On them, they had strange inscriptions like this: 

 

I knew they meant something, but I didn’t know 
what. So I collected any I could find and worked 
hard to decode them. After many months I finally 
cracked the case, the script itself was of Gnomish 
origin! Upon closer inspection, I also noted that 
the script was written using charcoal sticks, 
probably because of the semi-nomadic nature of 
Gnomes; an easier resource to acquire than 
making ink and quills. 

 

With that out of the way, here’s the decoded 
script:

 

These letters are all simplified depictions of 
various plants and bugs, the letter N for example is 
based off of the nutmeg seed when it’s still 
covered by its mace. We can also see the frequent 
use of the symbols:

 

These symbols are used to differentiate words and 
to start & end sentences respectively, for example: 
if I had to write down the sentence “Good 
morning” which is “Bor hag” in Gnomish, I would 
write it like this

 

Using  to begin and end the sentence, and using  to differentiate between "Bor" and "hag".

The script itself is written on birch bark from left- 
to-right and up-to-down like most languages, though charms are almost always circles and 
written in a spiraling way from inside-out. But with 
our kind closer than ever, we can write like normal 
instead of spirals. With that all said, I look forward 
to writing and reading the way our people did ages 
ago.

 

(OOC: If you want to use this script simply 
download it in this page: https://www.1001fonts.com/gnomish-font.html . A few tips in order to write better using this 
script: use lowercase letters, write numbers in 
words (aka “one” instead of “1”), begin and end 
sentences with “.”, use “;” to differentiate words 
and if you’re writing in Gnomish use the dictionary 
in this post https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/205392-culture-haeseni-gnomes-dunnfolk/  )