Woðans Ain av Twaitwogge Cepperbøg
Óðinn's Twenty-Three Letters ~ The Cepperjoleddicg Alphabet

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Woðans Ceppan
Óðinn's Runes

     The modern Cepperjoleddicg alphabet is a direct decendent of the Roman Alphabet. Cepperjoleddicg scribes learned (or rather, re-learned) the Etruscan alphabet and the Roman Alphabet from the Goths in the early fifth centrury, CE. The Ceppers were reluctant to switch from one alphabet to the other (there were striking differences between Cepper and Gothic punctuation and Cepper, like the other early Germanic languages, was still written right to left), but as trade between the Goths and the Ceppers became more frequent, the Ceppers were forced to adopt the newer alphabet.

     The streign (plural of stricg), also called bogstreign, are Cepperjoleddicg's diacritics. There are three: susswado, bogtagall, and bogyppymbgudd. Susswado, which looks like a very narrow tilde, is used exclusively with the letter edd to create the [ ð ] sound (I've written edd miþþ susswado / ð / here). Susswado literally means "buzzing water" and it is an onomatopoetic word for "voiced fricative." The diacritic's shape is that of a wave, after the character's name. Bogtagall is usually transcribed as an ogonek, although the bogtagall may be written either below or above a letter to change its value. Bogtagall is a decendent of the rune jera, originally representing [ j ], though early in Cepperjoleddicg's history it was used to represent [ ç ]. Finally, bogyppymbgudd, literally "up-turned hat letter," is used to give vau (/ u /) the value [ w ]. The character is decended from the same source that gave the letter vau.