id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4296 Runes - Wikipedia .html text/html 8885 1395 73 Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. Inscriptions such as wagnija, niþijo, and harija are supposed to represent tribe names, tentatively proposed to be Vangiones, the Nidensis, and the Harii tribes located in the Rhineland.[14] Since names ending in -io reflect Germanic morphology representing the Latin ending -ius, and the suffix -inius was reflected by Germanic -inio-,[15][16] the question of the problematic ending -ijo in masculine Proto-Norse would be resolved by assuming Roman (Rhineland) influences, while "the awkward ending -a of laguþewa[17] may be solved by accepting the fact that the name may indeed be West Germanic".[14] In the early Runic period differences between Germanic languages are generally presumed to be small. "Runes, Runic Language and Inscriptions" . ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4296.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4296.txt