Sunday, June 30, 2024

New Alphabet Concept: An English Spelling Reform Concept

As far as time can provide, there have been proposals to reform the spelling of the English alphabet, such as Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabetUnifon, and the Deseret alphabet.

Of course, I decided to take a little dip into this pond myself, and created my own English spelling reform concept... simply dubbed the New Alphabet Concept

This alphabet's purpose is to be simple, and make words look at least very close to how some might think they should be spelt.

Here is the Latin alphabet for such an alphabet:

It introduces 5 new letters: Ч, Ə, Ŋ, Ʃ, and Ʒ, and it keeps all 26 existing letters of the English alphabet

The pronunciations go as follows:

[æ] = a as in trap; [ɑː] = a as in palm; [ts] = ts as in cats; [tʃ] = ch as in cheese; [ð] = th as in then; [ɛ] = e as in help; [θ] = th as in thorn; [g] = g as in guy; [x] = ch as in loch (Scottish); [i] = i as in mediocre; [iː] = ee as in fleece; [ɪ] = i as in bizarre; [dʒ] = j as in jam; [ŋ] = ng as in sing; [ɔː] augh as in caught; [ɒ] = o as in lot [ʃ] = sh as in sheep; [u] = u as in fruition; [uː] = oo as in goose; [ʊ] = oo as in book; [ʌ] = u as in untidy; [j] = y as in yes; [ʒ] = as in pleasure; [ə] = a as in comma

C is entirely repurposed to utilize the sound [ts], instead of predominantly [s] and [k]. G strictly follows the [g] sound, with J likewise strictly following the [dʒ] sound, so some words that have 'g' with the [dʒ] sound will be replaced with 'j'. The th digraph will be almost entirely gone, with a lot of words bearing either 'd' or 'f', depending on if it bears [ð] or [θ]. Despite the fact I include a smaller capital for 'Ʃ', I have become more lenient and I allow the usage of ''ʃ'.

As following is a sentence (that being the preamble of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms):

Whereas Canada is founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

And translated into NAC Latin:

Weraz Kanədə iz faundid əpan də prinsəpəlz dat rekəgnaiz də səpreməsi uv Gad and də rul uv lo.

Now you might notice that I've been talking about a Latin alphabet, instead of just the alphabet, that is because I also created a Cyrillic alphabet to go along with it, which if I'm being honest is a bit much... but I felt like making my NAC (therefore English) being like Serbian, having two alphabets


I had basically copied the sounds of the Latin letters to the appropriate Cyrillic letters, so, for examples, 'J' becomes 'Џ', and 'I' becomes 'И'.

Just like 'Ʃ' above, I had strictly followed the opinion that ksi was to follow the Greek form, with both forms being based off the lower case form 'ξ', but again, I've become more lenient and I allow the usage of the more real forms 'Ѯѯ'

Again I shall transliterate the preamble of the Canadian Charter into NAC Cyrillic:

Ѵераз Канәдә из фаундид әпан дә принсәпәлз дат рекәгнаиз дә сәпремәси ув Гад анд дә рул ув ло.

Now I will clarify, this concept is incomplete, as I still think of ideas for the alphabet to induct, like for example, splitting off [ɪ] from [iː] and [i] into its own separate letter, that being dotless i 'Iı', while the other sounds become dotted i 'İi'

I have also been thinking of expanding this to other alphabets, like French, German, Spanish, and Arabic for example, but a big problem is deciding the letters for the foreign NAC's, as some have different sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet than the ones that exist in English.

I hope you all like my little concept that I have developed

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