Editing Guild of Linguists (restored) (section)

===The Guild of Linguists===
When Riven was released in [[1998 CE|1998]], incorporating D'ni writing into the game, fans wanted to understand their meaning and interest in the D'ni language exploded.

The actual D'ni script was first transliterated by '''Project Translatam''' in February 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jameswlanning.com/infosource/project/project.htm|title=PROJECT: Translatam|website=The D'ni/Riven Information Source|access-date=September 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012120431/http://www.jameswlanning.com/infosource/project/project.htm|archive-date=October 12, 2008}}</ref> Only a few nouns, verbs, and other forms of speech were known, but almost none of the alphabet. An unknown source supplied a partial list of D'ni–English letters; by analyzing text in ''Riven'' and in the ''Book of Ti'ana'' map,<ref name="map" /> undertanding of the script and the grammar quickly grew.

Since November 1998, Simon and Josef Riedl's '''Guild of Linguists'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linguists.riedl.org/old/|title=Homepage|website=Guild of Linguists|access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref> became a center of learning and a reference for the second 'generation' of linguists. The '''Writers of D'ni MOO'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.erithan.net/moo/|title=Nemeton Erithan|website=Writers of D'ni MOO|access-date=November 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031207181413/http://www.erithan.net/moo/|archive-date=December 7, 2003}}</ref>, an interactive role-playing environment based on the D'ni world of [[7500 DE]], also became popular, under Guild Master Do'vahth.

Coronus, Tekis, and Jehon designed the ''D'ni Script'' typeface<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linguists.riedl.org/old/sebastian/index.htm|title=The new D'ni Script 2.2|website=Guild of Linguists|access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref>. A new transliteration (the [[D'ni (language)#New Transliteration Standard|NTS]]) was devised<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linguists.riedl.org/old/transcr.htm|title=The New D'ni Transcription Standard|website=Guild of Linguists|access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref>, to eliminate the ambiguities of the more common standard used by Cyan. The relation between the alphabet and the [[D'ni numerals|numbering system]] was discovered.