Classical High Elven alphabet

The Classical High Elven alphabet was the earliest variant of the High Elven alphabet, used from 800 BEKE to 200 BEKE. Even though the Classical High Elven language remains used to this day as a literate language and a language of religion, they are no longer bound by the archaic conventions of this variant of the alphabet, but rather use the extended Middle High Elven alphabet.

History and evolution
The original High Elven alphabet was little different from it's predecessor, other than the shapes of the letters. However, around 700 BEKE, diacritics were invented to distinguish between long and short vowels. The Early High Elven alphabet did not distinguish between long and short vowels at all, whatsoever. The Classical High Elven alphabet between 800 BEKE and 700 BEKE used various systems to dinstinguish betwene short and long vowels. Eventually, by 700 BEKE, diacritics have won and became the standard, although several words and personal names retained the alternate spellings and.
 * Writing the short vowels as  and the long vowels  as digraphs.
 * Writing the short vowels as  and the long vowels  as doubled.
 * Writing the short vowels as  and the long vowels  with diacritics, as.
 * Not distinguishing between long and short vowels in writing at all, forcing the reader to figure them out from the context.

The letters
Unlike later variants, the Classical High Elven alphabet did not distinguish vowels and semivowels. As such, the same letter was used to write and, the same letter was used to write  and. Distinction between close vowels and semivowels was an innovation that came later, around 200 BEKE with Middle High Elven.

The aspirated consonants were written as. It is important to note that the letters represented the non-native sounds, which - due to their absence in native vocabulary - were often mispronounced as. In fact, those two letters were pretty much only used by scholars of foreign languages, and often replaced with by non-intellectuals.

The "greater" numerical values can be used to signify their lesser counterparts when used in a regnal number.

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