How to read and translate Foenician (and Elvish) runes!

A guide on Foenician and Elvish Runes (the language spoken by the Wintre Sprites, mostly) and how to translate them into English, as well as examples of runes in the game.

Intro

As of the deletion of the previous guide on this topic (due to reasons), I have opted to take up the mantle of recreating this guide specifically, which I feel was valuable to the TFH community. It is also so that important work that was done by many people is not lost to time. With that being said, lets get started.

Foenician Rune Table

The Foenician Rune language consists of 18 characters.
NOTE: Words starting with a vowel are written with an apostrophe and a when a vowel sound is surrounded by the same consonant sound, it's written as a colon.
Ex : 'LNDR for Oleander and P:RK for Paprika

Examples of Foenician Runes

NN
INN













TVRN

Possibly TAVERN










Top Sign:
HGHLNDS
Possibly HIGHLANDS
Bottom Sign:
GTKV
Possibly GOAT CAVE or GOAT COVE

WARNING: STORY MODE CHAPTER 1 SECRET SPOILERS AHEAD! SKIP OVER THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED ON MASSIVE SECRETS! I would advise not checking out the spoilers until you've at least beaten Arizona's chapter normally.

RFLKT
REFLEKT





STLWRT
STALWART





Left:
PRDTR FRDRK
PREDATOR FREDRICK
Right:
KDPTV XDGRZ
I am... not sure what this one says personally either, so sorry.








Top:
VLWDRT P??S WRDSFWSDMVRLSTNG
Not sure myself, but the general assumption is that this translates into "Words of Wisdom Everlasting."
Bottom:
This one is a special message, so I would advise figuring it out on your own after you've beaten the story mode, it means a lot more when you actually go through it yourself.
HL FRM MNSX THNKSFRPLNG
HELLO FROM MANE SIX THANKS FOR PLAYING

SPOILERS END HERE

Try to translate this one on your own to see if you can apply what you've learned so far:

If you seek a more difficult challenge, seek out the runes in the background during the last boss fight of Arizona's chapter. I won't spoil such a thing for you, though. You can check out the spoiler section above if you really want to know.

Elvish Runes

Elvish is the language spoke by the Wintre Sprites that accompany the Reindeer in Reine City, this also includes Cap, Cashmere's partner who will have his own dialogue in the shop in the Pixel Lobbies.

Note: Elvish runes use caesar cipher, it can be either 6 or 12.

Elvish Runes Table:

Example of Elvish Runes

I have not translated much from Elvish yet personally myself, so here's an example of one:

And that's it, feel free to use this as a reference when translating stuff.

Credits

Foenician and Elvish Rune Tables by Skyie-Fyire

[EpicGamer10075]

Hm, I'm not getting anything out of these.
The text certainly doesn't seem random, and I feel like a cipher would work...
You say you translated that one at the bottom of the page? What to?

Honestly, with how the text is shown to be in huge clumps and not usual word-lengths, I feel like there's something else going on here.

[Dogman15]

Not sure if it would help at all, Corvine Winterblood, but I have transcripts of story mode and Cashmere's shop dialogue (with Cap). These include the data of what the Winter Sprites say.

[Corvine Winterblood]

Would it be possible to form a group (say, a discord group) to try to translate all the various bits of text in TFH? I would be willing to join it, and I have a saved bit of translated elvish we could use as a starting point.

[sudoMoses]

Good to know you're still active!

[tu es destino]

tbh been looking all over for this so i can study it. You're awesome!

[Dogman15]

Thanks for re-creating this.