These writing and spelling systems are alternative ways of writing English and other languages. Most are designed to make it easier to learn how to write English.
 Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet |
 Deseret |
Dialectal Paleotype |
 Interbet |
 Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet |
 Quikscript/Read Alphabet |
 Shavian |
Simpel-Fonetik |  Unifon |
These writing systems that can be used to phonetically indicate the pronunciation of any language.
 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) |
 Visible Speech |
 Blissymbolics |
 Braille |
 Graffiti |
 Moon |
 Shorthand |
 Solresol |
 Sutton SignWriting |
These communication systems are designed to send messages via flags, lights, sound or electric pulses.
 Maritime Signal Flags |
-- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • Morse code |  Semaphore |
 Alphabet of the Magi |
 Angelic/Celestial |
 Daggers |
 Enochian |
 Malachim |
 Passing the River |
 Theban |
transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square bracketts, like this [b], [p]. etc.
You can learn which sounds are represented by these letters and symbols at:
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page30184.html
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page12580.html (en français)
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