Letters and Numbers



Yurgenschmidt uses its own set of letters and numbers. The alphabet consists of 35 different letters and ten numerals. The letters and numbers show certain resemblances with Latin letters and Arabic numerals. In the official artwork, the letters are a simple replacement cypher. The 9 letters that don't match the Latin Alphabet are only used when they aren't trying to have any meaningful text in the picture.

A fan named Fiona Jallings took the simple cypher and turned it into a working phonemic writing system, capable of writing German, the language that many of the names of places, characters, and gods is based on, and English.



How real-world scripts transform over time was used to make it a realistic descendent of the Phoenician abjad. Jallings put together a chart to imagine how the letters could have transformed. The three writing systems in this chart are the Phoenician, Ancient Greek, and Yurgenschmidt (referred to hence forth as “J-script”) writing systems. The pronunciations are in the International Phonetic Alphabet, which is abbreviated to IPA.

You’ll notice that many of the symbols are flipped around, have an extra line added, or have lines connect that hadn’t connected before. This is to be expected with the ways that writing systems change, especially since Ancient Greek, and likely J-script as well, reversed the direction that the script was written.

There are 26 letters out of the total 35 letters that seem to match the Latin alphabet.

There are nine special letters that exist in this letter system but don't correspond to any in the Latin alphabet. They seem to only be used in dummy text.

These letters represent the writing system in the world Myne lives in. They are used throughout the whole series.

Examples: In the world Myne got reincarnated into, only a few commoners know how to read or write, which results in a high illiteracy rate. Myne desires to learn the alphabet so much that she manages to get her hands on a used stone slate from Otto. She then gets him to teach her the alphabet. This is very useful for Myne when it comes to signing contracts, filling out supply orders, and writing books. There are notable visual similarities between the letters of Myne's world and our real-world Latin counterparts, such as:
 * Myne is spelled: / M,a,i,n
 * Ferdinand is spelled:  / F,e,r,d,i,n,a,n,d
 * Lutz is spelled: / L,u,t,z
 * Spoiler: Rozemyne is spelled: / R,o,s,e,m,a,i,n
 * The A is reversed: A /
 * The B has a bump to the front: B /

Myne first discovers numbers when she visits the market with Effa. There she notices the wooden boards written with numbers showing the prices of the products. She eagerly asks Effa more about the numbers and learns that the world operates using a base-10 (decimal) numeral system. Myne is very good at mathematics with Ehrenfest digits, even without calculators, which intrigues Otto and Mark. She also uses her skills when helping with Ferdinand's works at the temple. Just like letters, there are notables similarities with the numbers of this world and their real-world counterparts, such as:
 * The "0"(s) are the same: 0 /
 * The number 6 and 9 being the same symbol, but reversed: 6, 9 / ,


 * Japanese Wiki