Sarati

The Sarati was an alphabet and writing system invented in Valinor by Rúmil of Tirion. In later years, Fëanor modeled the ubiquitous Tengwar script on the Sarati. Unlike the Tengwar and the Cirth, the Sarati is written in several different directions, though the most prominent is from top to bottom. Others are left to right, right to left, and boustrophedon.
Each full character represents a consonant and, as in Tengwar, vowels are represented with diacritics. These vowel signs are written to the left (or sometimes right) of the consonants in vertical writing, above (and sometimes below) in horizontal writing. J.R.R. Tolkien stated that consonants were considered more salient than vowels, which were regarded as merely modifiers. When writing Quenya, the sign for "a", the most common Quenyan vowel, is usually omitted, technically make the Sarati an abugida with "a" as an inherent vowel.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Arabic 	ساراتي
Armenian 	Սարատի
Belarusian Cyrillic	Сараті
Bengali 	সারাটি
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Сарати
Chinese 	沙拉堤
Georgian 	სარატი
Greek 	Σαρατι
Gujarati 	સરાતી
Hebrew 	סאראטי
Hindi 	सराती
Japanese 	サラティ
Kannada 	ಸರತಿ
Kazakh 	Сарати (Cyrillic) Saratï (Latin)
Korean 	사라티
Macedonian Cyrillic	Сарати
Marathi 	सरती
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Сарати
Punjabi 	ਸਰਤੀ
Russian 	Сарати
Serbian 	Сарати (Cyrillic) Sarati (Latin)
Sinhalese 	සරති
Tajik Cyrillic 	Сарати
Tamil 	சாரதி
Telugu 	సరతి
Thai 	สะราตี
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Сараті
Urdu 	سآراٹا
Yiddish 	סאַראַטי
== External link ==
*Amanye Tenceli -- The Sarati
=== Modes ===
*Sarati mode for Quenya
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Category:Reading and writing systems