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Modern English pronunciation, rendered with the 24-rune Elder Futhark inventory. A new experiment in the outpost—not Futurama’s Alienese.
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Pronunciation approximation, not historical translation or encryption. Several English sounds share or combine runes. Original spelling cannot be recovered from the result. This is not Old Norse or an official Futurama alphabet.
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| Word / source | Pronunciation | Runes | Choices & approximations |
|---|
Not a letter swap.
Known words use the bundled US-English pronunciation dictionary. Unfamiliar words use ordered letter-to-sound rules and receive a review note. Those sounds—not individual letters—are mapped to runes.
thing → TH IH NG → ᚦᛁᛜknight → N AY T → ᚾᚨᛁᛏ
Heteronyms such as read, lead and wind need you to select the intended reading. There is no sentence-level pronunciation model.
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The running-sum A–Z cipher remains a separate legacy workbench. It still encodes TFP as TYN and decodes TYN as TFP. Its arithmetic and existing input/output controls are unchanged.
Open the legacy cipherElder Futhark rendering is deliberately not offered as a reversible cipher or a substitute for the show’s visual glyphs.
24 runes. Many modern compromises.
These are the selected Unicode characters and conventional names. Hints describe this application’s modern rendering; they are not a promise of historical pronunciation. Eihwaz is reserved because its historical sound value is disputed.
U+16A0U+16A2U+16A6U+16A8U+16B1U+16B2U+16B7U+16B9U+16BAU+16BEU+16C1U+16C3U+16C7U+16C8U+16C9U+16CAU+16CFU+16D2U+16D6U+16D7U+16DAU+16DCU+16DEU+16DFMapping choices, data provenance & privacy
Versioned modern adaptation
elder-futhark-en-us-v1 follows the newer replacement report, not the older PHP example’s output convention. V uses ᚠ, CH uses ᛏᛊ, English J uses ᛞᛉ, and Jera ᛃ is kept for the Y sound. Readable mode keeps diphthongs, the schwa vowel and the vowel component of ER. These choices lose distinctions; none claims an authentic ancient English spelling.
Compact mode additionally omits AH0 and AX schwa and merges adjacent identical runes inside each word. That can shorten or remove a word and is shown in diagnostics. Runic separators change horizontal spacing and common punctuation, but preserve line breaks and digits; they do not infer dates or number pronunciation.
Pronunciation data supplied with this release
The operator-supplied PHP example contains a CMUdict snapshot with 126,052 entries and 135,166 pronunciations, plus 308 adapted NRL rules. The complete local snapshot is retained; no upstream service is queried. Its first reading is the default and may be wrong for your sentence or dialect. Accented and unsupported words remain unchanged unless you supply their pronunciation.
Compatibility phone codes AX, IX and AXR and syllabic aliases are supported for manual entries; these are not additional runes. No automatic number expansion, microphone, speech synthesis, translation model or reverse decoder is included.
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PHP serves this page; a local Web Worker performs conversion in your browser. It loads the same static dictionary and mapping files for everyone, independently of entered text. There is no conversion endpoint, text upload, conversion history, visitor-memory record or analytics event. Clipboard and text-file export are initiated only by your buttons. The rest of Hulurama retains its existing account/session behavior.
Data and code notices: CMUdict license · Supplied example’s MIT notice. Unicode character reference: Unicode Runic names list. These are links, not embedded external resources.
| ARPABET phone | Readable runes | Approximation note |
|---|---|---|
P | ᛈ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
B | ᛒ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
T | ᛏ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
D | ᛞ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
K | ᚲ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
G | ᚷ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
F | ᚠ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
V | ᚠ | V uses Fehu: the F/V voicing distinction is lost. |
TH | ᚦ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
DH | ᚦ | Voiced and unvoiced TH share Thurisaz. |
S | ᛊ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
Z | ᛉ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
SH | ᛊ | SH shares Sowilo with S. |
ZH | ᛉ | ZH shares Algiz with Z. |
CH | ᛏᛊ | CH uses T + S; this is a modern approximation. |
JH | ᛞᛉ | English J uses D + Z; Jera is reserved for the Y sound. |
M | ᛗ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
N | ᚾ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
NG | ᛜ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
L | ᛚ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
R | ᚱ | Modern American R is approximated by Raido. |
Y | ᛃ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
W | ᚹ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
HH | ᚺ | No additional loss class assigned in this application. |
AA | ᚨ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
AE | ᚨ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
AH | ᚨ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
AO | ᛟ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
EH | ᛖ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
IH | ᛁ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
IY | ᛁ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
UH | ᚢ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
UW | ᚢ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
ER | ᛖᚱ | The R-colored vowel uses E + R. |
AW | ᚨᚢ | The diphthong is kept as two runes; this is a modern rendering convention. |
AY | ᚨᛁ | The diphthong is kept as two runes; this is a modern rendering convention. |
EY | ᛖᛁ | The diphthong is kept as two runes; this is a modern rendering convention. |
OW | ᛟᚢ | The diphthong is kept as two runes; this is a modern rendering convention. |
OY | ᛟᛁ | The diphthong is kept as two runes; this is a modern rendering convention. |
AX | ᚨ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
IX | ᛁ | Modern vowel distinctions are reduced by this mapping. |
AXR | ᛖᚱ | The reduced R-colored vowel uses E + R. |
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