Gothic Letter Ninety

In a numeral-marked passage, read it as a number.

Like Greek, Gothic writing gave number values to alphabet signs. Scribes marked numeral use with paired dots or a horizontal line above the sign; that cue tells you to read 𐍁 as a value rather than a sound in a word.

Bishop Wulfila is traditionally credited with creating the Gothic alphabet in the fourth century for Bible translation. Greek was its main model, with some Latin and runic forms; surviving Gothic documents date from the fifth and early sixth centuries.