This comes in handy for him when speaking to one of the People who doesn't possess the gift of tongues. It was originally written in spirals, starting from the middle of the page and ending at the edge, but since reading in spirals gives most fairies migraines, most modern fairy script is arranged in horizontal lines.Īrtemis Fowl is the only human who is fluent in Gnommish. It is also mentioned that Gnommish is a mix of symbolic and alphabetic letters. When Artemis Fowl and other characters speak Gnommish in the books, they are clearly speaking another language, but the reader-translatable Gnommish written on the bottom of each page of the books directly correspond to English letters.ĭue to Gnommish's similarity to hieroglyphics, it was assumed by Artemis that the early Egyptians might have adopted an already existing writing style instead of coming up with a new one. It is originally compared by Artemis to the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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