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I’m really sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but dwarven runes have no phonetic value and are actually pictographs as most common dwarves cannot read dwarven.
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For instance, a fire rune is very obviously fire. While runes from Origins are a bit more obscure, but still pictographs. For example, Silverite Runes against Darkspawn are stylized Ogre horns and Cold Iron runes are used against the undead, which is a stylized skull.
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Therefore, it is impossible to use them to decipher the Dwarven alphabet, despite being able to be used as a form of writing (pictographs are one of the oldest forms of writing). Sorry :(
(Source: Asunder by David Gaider)