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The History of the Runic Alphabets
There were lots of different forms of the runic alphabets. These were typically used to write the Germanic languages. All of these were wiped out and a single script was imposed over almost the entirety of Europe. And this was not a native script to most of the European languages except for Latin. So then they had to adopt a foreign script to write their language. The reason why the English language is so arbitrary, the spellings and pronunciations, is because it uses a script that is not native to the language and notnative to the region. It's a foreign script that has been force fitted on the culture and on the language.
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