The Inuktitut language is a fascinating thing. The characters are syllabics—that is, each character makes a sound. They are: OOH, AH, EE, preceded by 'M', 'K', 'L' etc. read more
(Blackletter/Fraktur is just another shape of Latin alphabet letters, in my opinion, not substantively more different from Antiqua letters than, say, Arial is from Times.) However, ancestors of the German language, before that language split up into distinctly German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish etc. languages, were written in runes. read more