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The exact nature of Forerunner writing remains a mystery. The symbols are most likely logograms rather than parts of an alphabet or a syllabary. There also seems to be more dimensions to Forerunner writing than traditional methods, with individual glyphs holding multiple meanings, likely making them entirely contextual—when combined with different glyphs, a symbol might have radically different meanings, making individual glyphs pictograms or ideograms.

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  • The exact nature of Forerunner writing remains a mystery. The symbols are most likely logograms rather than parts of an alphabet or a syllabary. There also seems to be more dimensions to Forerunner writing than traditional methods, with individual glyphs holding multiple meanings, likely making them entirely contextual—when combined with different glyphs, a symbol might have radically different meanings, making individual glyphs pictograms or ideograms.
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  • The exact nature of Forerunner writing remains a mystery. The symbols are most likely logograms rather than parts of an alphabet or a syllabary. There also seems to be more dimensions to Forerunner writing than traditional methods, with individual glyphs holding multiple meanings, likely making them entirely contextual—when combined with different glyphs, a symbol might have radically different meanings, making individual glyphs pictograms or ideograms. Other symbols found on Forerunner relics and structures are even less obvious in their meanings. They are obviously decorative in nature, but they are often larger and more elaborate in nature than their glyphs, and may depict specific shapes and forms, and may have more in common with petroglyphs than logograms. It is also speculated that these glyphs are found on covenant luminaries as indicators of forerunner relics, as the reclaimer glyph was seen to represent humans in Contact Harvest.
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