The Younger Futhark, also called the Scandinavian Futhark, is a
runic alphabet, a reduced form of the
Elder Futhark, consisting of only 16 characters, in use from ca. AD
800. The reduction, paradoxically, happened at the same time as phonetic changes led to a greater number of different phonemes in the spoken language, when
Proto-Norse evolved into
Old Norse.
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