Transliteration of Dwarven into the High Elven script

Transliteration of Dwarven into the High Elven script date back to almost as early as the existence of the High Elven alphabet itself, but no standardized system for it was developed until centuries after the Etrandish annexation of Dwarven clans.

Early attempts and history
Prior to the various later attempts to losslessly map the Dwarven language's phonology to the High Elven alphabet, most early "attempts" did not even attempt to be a lossless and accurate transliteration of Dwarven, but were instead highly defective systems, heavily biased based on the transliterator's native Etrandish or High Elven phonology: mapping the vowels and consonants of Dwarven to the transliterator's native tongue was a lossy process, made even lossier by the fact that even for the Etrandish and High Elven languages, the High Elven script is defective and has some ambiguoties. As an example, distinctiosn between and  were typically completely lost, as were distinctions between  and,  and , etc.

The Korth-system
Developed by a Dwarf named Thashtrim Korth in the early 6th century, the Korth-system sought to overcome limitations of the earlier lossy transliterations, he took a system based on the Middle Etrandish orthography, and augmented it with various digraphs to remove ambiguities and make it possible to transliterate text back into the Dwarven script without relying on context. As such, the system he came up with would map the Dwarven phonology to following letters and digraphs:
 * The neutral vowels would be written respectively as  after Light consonants,  after Dark consonants.
 * The Light vowels would be written respectively as.
 * The Dark vowels would be written respectively as.
 * The foreign vowels would be written respectively as  when necessary, though Korth recommended spelling loanwords - especially loanwords of Etrandish origins - the way they were spelled in the source language.
 * The Light consonants would be written respectively .  would also be written as  where it was written in the Dwarven alphabet as . Additionally,  would be written as  after consonants, to avoid confusion.
 * The Dark consonants would be written respectively .  would also be written as  where it was written in the Dwarven alphabet as . For aesthetic reasons,  are written as  before a vowel,  when not followed by a vowel.
 * Writing both as  as  would not cause ambiguity, because they could not occour in the same environments (the first only before light vowels, the second only before dark vowels), and the neutral vowels would be already disambiguated to make the context (light vs dark) clear.

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