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The Romic Alphabet, sometimes known as the Romic Reform, is a phonetic alphabet proposed by Henry Sweet. It descends from Ellis's Palaeotype alphabet and English Phonotypic Alphabet, and is the direct ancestor of the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Romic every sound had a dedicated symbol, and every symbol represented a single sound.
- List of language reforms of English
Romic alphabet. Shavian alphabet (revised version:...
- International Phonetic Alphabet
In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers...
- List of language reforms of English
The Palaeotype alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by Alexander John Ellis to describe the pronunciation of English. It was based on the theory of Bell's Visible Speech, but set in roman script, and attempted to include the sounds conveyed by Lepsius 's Standard Alphabet as well.
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- Latin alphabetLepsius' Standard AlphabetPalaeotype
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Romani alphabets. The Romani language has for most of its history been an entirely oral language, with no written form in common use. Although the first example of written Romani dates from 1542, [1] it is not until the twentieth century that vernacular writing by native Romani people arose. Printed anthologies of Romani folktales and poems ...
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century.
The history of the IPA began soon after and was created from the Romic alphabet and elements of earlier systems. As a system of phonetic transcription for oral languages, it was designed to assist the teaching profession by creating a uniform standard for phonetic writing.
