I made this because:
1. Shavian is for British English
2. Shavian has like 4 letters for the same sound
3. Shavian has ian (why???????)
4. Shavian is unintuitive to read
There may or may not have been more than 26 letters so I just used the numbers (and the symbols you get when you press shift) as well as - and _, and then I put exclaimation mark as the forwards slash.
[A] Hey, Wait
[B] Banana
[C] Cat, Kick
[D] Doug
[E] Feet, Ease
[F] Fly
[G] Glue
[H] Hello
[I] Iffy, Liquid
[J] Jeans, Genes, Drain
[K] Child, Itchy, Train
[L] Lungs
[M, which looks like N] Mind
[N, which looks like M (i have a good reason trust)] Nosey
[O] Oats, Phloem, Go
[P] Prize
[Q] Ray, Cart
[R] Curtain, Over
[S] Some
[T] Tell, Thyme
[U] Ooze, Flu
[V] Very
[W] What, Wind
[X] Measure
[Y] You
[Z] Zebra
[1/!] Call, Saul
[2/@] Up, Slug
[3/#] Wood, Would
[4/$] Egg, Well
[5/%] Thing, Wink
[6/^] Ash, Paddle
[7/&] Ail, Air, Am, An
[8/*] Shoe, Cache, Issue
[9/(] Thigh
[0/)] Those
[-/_] Rat (glottal stop)
[Q], [W], and [Y] are for making diphthongs because I am a firm beleiver that a diphthong is not one singular sound
Here are all the [Q] ones because as far as I'm aware I'm the only one who thinks r should be two letters, and that would mean I need this section
[Q][A] Ray
[A][Q] no examples (Air is for [7/&])
[Q][E] Free
[E][Q] Ear
[Q][I] Rip
[I][Q] no examples
[Q][O] Row
[O][Q] Oar, Or
[Q][U] Room
[U][Q] Lure
[Q][1/!] Raw
[1/!][Q] Are
[Q][2/@] Rut
[2/@][Q] Party, Art
[Q][3/#] Crook
[3/#][Q] no examples
[Q][4/$] Red
[4/$][Q] Ferry (if you're British)
[Q][6/^] Rash
[6/^][Q] Carrot (if you're British)
[Q][7/&] Rail, Rare, Ran, Ram
[7/&][Q] Carrot (if you speak oil and hamburger language), Air, Glare
5 Comments
"[N, which looks like M (I have a good reason trust)]"
proceeds to not say the reason.
If you're really curious, it's because M is produced furthest up in your mouth. N is in the middle, and then Ŋ (the sound from thing) is furthest back. Their characters reflect that by having most of their weight at the front middle or back.
My IPA rendering of the script (based on my understanding of it):
A = /e͡ɪ/
B = /b/
C = /k/
D = /d/
E = /i/
F = /f/
G = /g/
H = /h/
I = /ɪ/
J = /d͡ʒ/
K = /t͡ʃ/
L = /l/
M = /m/
N = /n/
O = /o͡ʊ/
P = /p/
Q = /ɹ/
R = /ɹ̩/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/
S = /s/
T = /t/
U = /u/
V = /v/
W = /w/
X = /ʒ/
Y = /j/
Z = /z/
1 = /ɑ/
2 = /ʌ/, /ə/, /a/
3 = /ʊ/
4 = /ɛ/
5 = /ŋ/
6 = /æ/
7 = /e/
8 = /ʃ/
9 = /θ/
0 = /ð/
_ = /ʔ/
@Fluxxor392
Surely this is supposed to be a phonetic script, not a phonemic script. /ʔ/ would have to be [ʔ] since it’s an environmentally restricted allophone of /t/.
Also, I’m curious why you included /a/ as an option for the STRUT vowel. It does occur in Euro English, New Zealand English, Malaysian English, and Singaporean English, but you haven’t seemed to account for them anywhere else, so I assume you included it for another reason.
@TH3_C0N-MAN Why I included /a/: It's combined with Y in “type” (t2yp) to form /aɪ/
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