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Ogham Transliterator

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The Ogham alphabet has been used in Ireland for over 1500 years. It survives today on over 300 stone monuments around Ireland. It’s thought our ancient ancestors used Ogham to commemorate loved ones and lay claim to lands. Today we use Ogham as a way to honor our Irish heritage.

Just as a translator changes words from one language into those of another, a transliterator copies letters from one alphabet into the corresponding character in another alphabet. So for example the letter B in the latin alphabet becomes “Beith” or b. You can play around with our transliterator below and see words spelled out in the ogham alphabet.

History Of Ogham

The Ogham alphabet originally contained 20 letters which were painstakingly engraved into stone markers that still stand around Ireland today. Found in fields and on hilltops, these stones give glimpses of Ireland’s ancient past. Some seem to mark borders while others are monuments engraved with the evocative names and genealogies of their commissioners with inscriptions like “Belonging to the Three Sons of the Bald One,” or “He Who Was Born Of The Raven.”

How Is It Read?

Known by some as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet”, each of its 20 characters is made out of a vertical reference line, or stem, crossed by one or more parallel lines, or twigs, which make up the sounds of the Irish language. It is read vertically from bottom to top, “up the tree.” Many letters are also associated with a tree, often one that starts with the sound the letter represents. The “B” sound, for example is called “Beith”, or birch tree.

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