Sarati

This article or section needs expansion and/or modification. Please help the wiki by expanding it . As in the later Tengwar, each full character represents a consonant, while vowels are represented with diacritics called tehtar . In the Sarati, vowel signs are written to the left or right of the consonants. According to Tolkien, consonants were considered more salient than vowels, and vowels were considered merely modifiers. When writing Quenya, the sign for "a" is usually omitted, as it is the most common vowel in Quenya. This would technically make the Sarati an abugida with an inherent vowel of "a".