Dalecarlian Runes

Recently, I've been investigating the Dalecarlian language (Also known as Elfdalian). A detailed description can be found here. It is often considered a dialect of Swedish, but is unique enough that many consider it a separate Scandanavian language along with Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faeroese.

Elfdalian, spoken by around 3,000 people, contains many features that have long disappeared from Swedish and Norwegian. Perhaps the most notable was the up until the first part of the last century, Elfdalian was written with a combination of Latin and Runic characters--the last place to use Norse runes.

Like most minority languages the language is in decline, but now there is an attempt to revitalize it. In order to teach it, they had to standardize the orthography--decide how to write Elfdalian. They've done this, but sadly, the standardized alphabet doesn't contain any runes! The alphabet has ogonek (tailed) versions of most vowels to represent nasal vowels--something that isn't found in any other Scandinavian language outside of academic transcriptions of Old Norse.

A language with its own alphabet has a special character all its own (no pun intended!). Tamil written in Roman characters loses some charm, or compare Chinese characters with Pin Yin. Sure, they'd have to create a new keyboard layout, but runes are supported by unicode. From an outsider's perspective, runes were the best part of Elfdalian (Although the name of the language is pretty cool too). Why not perpetuate it?