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The [[Fjerdan language]] is written with an {{wl|alphabet}} created by [[Christian Thalmann]] for the potential spin-off series of [[Netflix]]'s ''[[Shadow and Bone]]'', ''[[Six of Crows]]'', which did not end up being created. 

==Orthography==
Fjerdan is written with an alphabet. As such, it features full characters for both consonants and vowels.

The script has letters for aspirated (voiceless) consonants which are formed off of the base (voiced/unaspirated) consonant glyphs in a predictable manner. There are also glyphs for palatalized (postalveolar) consonants, similarly formed off of the glyphs of the corresponding alveolar sounds. This makes the system partly {{w|featural}}. 

===Diachronic evolution===
Over the course of its history, the Fjerdan script evolved through many styles and writing mediums (the phrase {{m|fjer|Skirden Fyerda}} is used as an example}}:

[[File:Fj1.png|220px]]

From top to bottom: wood runes, vernacular handwriting, calligraphic blackletter, utilitarian blackletter, rectangular blackletter, and grotesque/sans serif.

===Letters and punctuation===
The Fjerdan letters for consonant and vowel sounds as well as punctuation marks are shown below:

[[File:Fj2.png|350px|top]]

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[[File:Fj3.png|345px|top]]

====Usage notes====
The Fjerdan script is young and thus still mostly phonetic, with a few exceptions: 

* Voiceless consonants can be written with the corresponding base (voiced) letter in unvoiced clusters or word-finally. This reduces visual clutter. For example, {{m|fjer|strüpfet}} could be written in Fjerdan script as ''sdrüpved''.
* The gemination mark is mostly used for disambiguation of minimal pairs, and is not used otherwise. For example, {{m|fjer|ulle}} is written as ''ule'', while {{m|fjer|verret}} is written with the gemination mark to distinguish it from {{m|fjer|veret}}. 
* The sound ''zh'' [ʒ] is an allophone of the phoneme ''y'' /j/, and is consequently spelled the same. For example, {{m|fjer|nezh}} is spelled ''ney'' and {{m|fjer|aizhor}} is spelled ''ayor''. Compare this with {{m|fjer|yarl}}, which is spelled with the same ''y'' glyph.

===Numerals===
The Fjerdan numeral system is {{wl|base-10}}, with a sub-base of 5. It is shown below:

[[File:Fj4.png|350px]]

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