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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