Old scripts and signalling alphabets
Write English in runes, Ogham, Morse and more. Every converter includes a full chart.
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Scripts and signalling alphabets
Transliteration, not translation
These converters change the alphabet and leave the language alone. English written in runes is still English: each letter becomes the symbol with the nearest sound, and a reader who knows the script gets your words back, not Old Norse.
Where a script has no symbol for a modern letter, the converter borrows the closest sound and tells you what it borrowed. Ogham was built for early Irish and the futharks for Germanic languages. None of them were expecting English.
Shapes, strokes and signals
Each of these scripts was shaped by what its writers had to hand. Runes are straight lines because they were cut into wood and stone. Ogham is counted strokes along an edge, so a carver needs no ruled line and a reader can follow it by touch. Morse gives up on shape and uses time, because a telegraph key is only ever up or down.
Questions
Can you translate English into Old Norse?
No. The runes converter changes the alphabet only. Translation needs a dictionary and grammar, not a character map.
Why do some letters look the same in runes?
Older scripts had fewer symbols than English has letters. Younger Futhark has 16 for the whole language, so several letters share.
Will runes and Ogham display on my phone?
On these pages, yes, because the fonts are bundled. Pasted elsewhere it depends on that app having a font for those Unicode blocks.