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Translated from original German description: After a long time, something more special again:

Some people will remember this script from Tengwar, which is not surprising, since Tolkien used the old Irish Gaelic script. So here is the template, the Insular-Latin script, with which the actual language of the Emerald Isle is written.

The reason I marked this as non-standard is because it has a few peculiarities, especially for Gaelic: the Irish language has a number of lenited vowels that are marked with an h suffix in modern Latin script, but in Irish script they are with a diacritic dot above it. So I’ve replaced B, C, D, F, G, M, P, S, and T (and their lowercase equivalents) with their respective dotted versions whenever an h follows, such as bh or ph.

Unfortunately, this only works in programs that support OpenType standard ligatures. For the meanwhile rare old software, which is not yet able to do this, I have provided a second input option by writing the Grave-Tot key in front of the consonants, e.g. `b or `p (this is the key to the right of the question mark) . So the key works exactly the same as with à è ì ò ù, except that with b, c, d, f, g, m, p, s and t it creates another diacritical mark, the superposed dot, for the there is no direct key on the keyboard. A small drop of bitterness: with this form of input, the dot at the m is unfortunately slightly off-center. And it only works for lower case letters, then write the h for upper case letters.

Another special feature: This font uses the long insular forms for the lowercase letters r and s. And, I almost forgot, instead & one finds the trionic note for the ampersand, which is common in Ireland and is also used for it within texts.