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An alphabet built to fit English sounds.
Also known as: Shaw alphabet
The script designed in the 1950s to write English phonemically in letters unrelated to the Latin alphabet.
Writes English with one letter to a phoneme in a purpose-designed alphabet.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Pairs voiced and unvoiced consonants as mirror-image or rotated forms, so the letterforms encode a phonological relationship the Latin alphabet leaves arbitrary — the design carries linguistic information the letters it replaced do not.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Forty-eight letters of simple strokes and curves, tall letters and deep letters paired for voiced and unvoiced consonants, with no capitals.