Written Halfling

Writing the Halfling language down has a long, albeit stormy and obscure history: while writing systems for the Halfling language have existed since 800 BEKE at earliest in one form or another, the language remained a de facto oral language until around 300 AEKE, when the language was already in decline. In the late 7th century, the language was revived, and with it, two standardized varieties (Froturn Halfling and Antanath Halfling) were created, both with their own writing systems and standardized orthographies.

Early attempts
The earliest instances of written Halfling would be texts written in the Archaic High Elven language, Proto-Human language and Old Dwarven language, with quotes in Late Proto-Halfling, respectively written in the Early High Elven alphabet (rarely the Tolianem script), the Human Runes and the Old Dwarven script. These weren't true writing systems, but rather just phonetic transliterations of names and untranslated quotes, and were heavily biased based on the phonologies of the aforementioned three languages.

Out of these, eventually, two semi-standardized - but still highly defective - systems emerged, adopting the Classical High Elven alphabet and the Classical Dwarven abjad for writing Western Halflingand Eastern Halfling respectively. Both systems were seldom used (meaning that Halfling mostly remained a de facto oral language), highly defective, and still closer to phonetical transcriptions into High Elven and Dwarven respectively, than true writing systems invented for Halfling.