Zh'Álurhsá Vílár - The Alurhsa Alphabet


The following is a representation of the 91 characters used to write the Alurhsa language. All native works are, of course, written using this alphabet. The letters, called víl in the Alurhsa language, resemble runic writing and actually date back to the oldest written records among the Alurhsa people.  The system was still in use, although the letters had undergone some modifications, by the time of the Unification, and as it held the greatest historical and traditional significance, as well as being the writing system in use by the largest number of people, it was chosen to be the official system to go with the reconstructed unification language.

The corresponding roman letter is listed beneath each Alurhsa character:

For those who might be interested, this font is available as a TrueType font:

Alurhsa Font

Click the links below to view sample texts in the Alurhsa script, both handwritten and printed.

Journey of Halyihev (PDF)
Alurhsa translation of Rapunzel (PDF)
Personal Goals (PDF)
Psalm 121 (PDF)
2nd John (PDF)
3rd John (PDF)
Jude (PDF)

Note that there are two other alphabets used with the Alurhsa language, both dating back to pre-Unification languages.

Presently these two systems are used for special decorative purposes, and most often only within the areas where they were originally common.

The V'sul writing system, which resembles terran Arabic, or more exactly Syriac, more than any other which terrans might be familiar with, is a cursive script written right to left across the page.  This system, called shthálírës was used for the V'sul language, spoken originally throughout the Balashan peninsula in southern Kritsen, although by the time of the Unification it had been supplanted by the Asketa and Karasik languages, and was in daily use only on the islands that range from the peninsula south-west towards the island of Vayna.  The shthálírës continued to be used for the languages which supplanted V'sul, along side the writing systems normally employed for those languages.

V'sul Alphabet with Roman Equivalents

V'sul Alphabet with Roman Equivalents

Samples of V'sul writing, in the Vaynan (Táriatta) language:

Sample V'sul passage in Vaynan (Táriatta) (Jpeg)
Sample sentences in Vaynan (Táriatta) (Jpeg)

  The Asketa writing system, which is composed of ogham-like characters written vertically, top to bottom, flowing right to left across the page, is normally called kólírës and the letters are kólír.  Kólírës was used throughout the areas along the southern coast of the main continent (Káníltóm) where the wealthy and powerful Asketa nation wielded influence, from the western shores of the Balashan peninsula in modern Kritsen, to the Mouth of the Arh in present day Lyívná.

(Examples of Asketan unavailable at this time.)