These writing / spelling systems are alternative ways of writing English and other languages. Most are designed to make it easier to learn how to write English.
Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet |
Interbet |
Quikscript/Read Alphabet |
Shavian |
Simpel-Fonetik | Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet |
Unifon |
These writing systems that can be used to phonetically indicate the pronunciation of any language.
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) |
Visible Speech |
Blissymbolics |
Braille |
Graffiti |
Moon |
Shorthand |
Solresol |
Sutton SignWriting |
These communication systems are designed to send messages via flags, lights, sound or electric pulses.
-- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • Morse code |
Maritime Signal Flags |
Semaphore |
Alphabet of the Magi |
Angelic/Celestial |
Daggers |
Enochian |
Malachim |
Passing the River |
Theban |
transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square bracketts, like this [b], [p]. etc.
You can learn which sounds are represented by these letters and symbols at:
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page30184.html
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page12580.html (en français)
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