Ogham Alphabet
The Irish tree-alphabet, letter by letter.
The Irish tree-alphabet - a simplified A-Z chart from the 20-letter original.
OGHAM
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Ogham is an early-medieval alphabet used to write the earliest Irish, formed from sets of straight and slanting strokes crossing a central line. It survives mainly on standing stones from around the 4th to 6th centuries AD, where names were carved along the stoneβs edge.
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