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If you are using the Shavian alphabet, what language are you speaking or writing?

Question #150369. Asked by odo5435.
Last updated Dec 24 2023.
Originally posted Dec 23 2023 5:36 AM.

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Shavian Alphabet is a phonetic way to write and pronounce the Latin alphabet. It was created by Kingsley Read and funded by Bernard Shaw.

link https://www.shavian.info

Dec 23 2023, 9:11 AM
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You would be speaking English!

George Bernard Shaw created a competition for a new English alphabet with at least 40 letters. His motivation was to ease and advance communication by providing new characters for specific sounds, thus erasing the many contradictions and anomalies in English spelling (think of the pronunciations of through, though, bough, and cough, for example).

The 48 characters in the chosen entry are written with just one stroke, similar to shorthand, ostensibly making it easier to write and learn.

There are some examples here. It is also known as The Shaw Alphabet.

link https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/puzzles-shavian-language

Dec 24 2023, 3:44 AM
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