Gnommish Gnommish

The Gnommish alphabet appears in the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer. It is supposedly the ancestor of Egyptian Hieroglyphs and is used to write Gnommish, the language of the fairies. In the books it is used to write English and appears on the front covers, at the beginning of each chapter and runs along the bottom of each page.

Notable features

The Gnommish alphabet

The Gnommish alphabet

Sample text

Sample text in Gnommish

Transliteration
Carry me always, carry me well.
I am thy teacher of herb and spell.
I am thy link to power arcane.
Forget me and thy magic shall wane.
The first lines of "The Booke of the People"

Links

Gnommish Two-Way Translator
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/translate/gnommish/gnommish.htm

Fairy World
http://www.thefairyworld.co.uk

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