Interbet

The international phonematic alphabet, Interbet, was designed by Vitaly Vetash from Russia. It is based on the combination of Latin alphabet and some Cyrillic letters, as well as a number of letters invented by the author and linguistic signs modifying all of them into a unified style.

The author has included comparatively few completely new signs, creating a unified style unity for the new alphabet based on existing letters. He tried to find the optimal number of letters (45) that have an aesthetically perfect shape, and are sufficient to write all the world's most widely-spoken languages. The same letters can be used to represent a number of phonemes, depending on the phonetics of a language.

Notable features

Interbet alphabet

Interbet alphabet

The name Interbet comes from International Alphabet. The names of letters in Interbet are mostly based on the ancient Phoenician and Greek alphabets, as well as the letters of the other alphabets and on some practical names, traditional for linguists: with some changes, according to the principles of distinctivity from the other names, euphony and connection with a prototype

Sample text in Russian

Sample text in the Interbet alphabet in Russian

Translation

Vitaly Vetash, an artist and a linguist, is the author of the universal phonematic alphabet Interbet. He created it having worked from 1977 to 1999.

Sample text in English

Sample text in the Interbet alphabet in English

Transliteration

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

The main question during the creation of Interbet was to determine the number and the set of the letters, which would be enough and aesthetically perfect. Besides the letters represented here on the picture, the author also created many possible variants of the letters, which you can see in the PDF article, where the problem of the international writing and this project are considered in detail.

Download an Interbet font (TrueType, 44K)

Further details of Interbet
http://www.astrolingua.spb.ru/ENGLISH/inter_eng.htm

The author would be glad to receive comments from linguists and designers of scripts which deal with the problem of the international writing. You can contact Vitaly Vetash at semiravet@yandex.ru

Also by Vitaly Vetash

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