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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.
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- International Phonetic Alphabet
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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.
- Alexander John Ellis
- Latin alphabetLepsius' Standard AlphabetPalaeotype
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- alphabet, (phonetic)
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Romic alphabet. Shavian alphabet (revised version: Quikscript) Unifon. Subsets are reforms that use a restricted wordlist and grammar. English subsets include: Attempto Controlled English. Basic English. E-Prime. Globish. Plain English. Simplified English. Special English. Specialised English.
History of the International Phonetic Alphabet. In the late 19th century, Paul Passy and French and British language teachers established the International Phonetic Association in Paris. The history of the IPA began soon after and was created from the Romic alphabet and elements of earlier systems.
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.
Narrow Romic utilized italics to distinguish fine details of pronunciation; Broad Romic was cruder, and in it the vowels had their English "short" sounds when written singly, and their "long" sounds when doubled:
Jan 1, 2017 · Abstract. This paper aims at comparing two different approaches to teaching the fundamentals of broad phonemic transcription - the old-fashioned, teacher-centred method involving repetition and...
