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[edit] Summary

The Ancients alphabet as it appears in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. This Image was made by Runic code, using a font he found on the internet at this location; OMniglot. He used the paint program to make up the image. I've saved this as a PNG file, optimized with pngout, and uploaded under a correct spelling.

[edit] Note

The statement in the episode "The Reckoning Part 2" that Ancient, when upside down, can spell other words, is in fact wrong. While the letter forms for "l" and "o" do remain the same upside down and "r" and "j" become each other when rotationally inverted (the same is roughly true of their Latin character equivalents), only if most Ancient words can be written with these four characters would this be true. However it is possible there is a second alphabet or alternate letter forms with 180-degree rotational symmetry to these which could allow for this to be true.

Also, the glyphs for the letters "f" and "u" are the same due to an unintentional mistake by the graphical designer who developed the Ancient font for the Stargate shows. Another possibility is (considering that in some languages, one letter has the same appearance as another) this was done on purpose, and not a mistake.{Actually "f" and "u" are the same because they are the same in latin too, this is not a mistake, it is just part of the relation the designers between latin and altrean (both having only 35 symbols)

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current	20:18, 10 December 2006	427×245 (4 KB)	Cristan (Talk \| contribs)	(== Summary == The Ancients alphabet as it appears in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. This Image was made by Runic code, using a font he found on the internet at this location; [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ancients.htm)