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And while manual alphabets are a direct continuation of the local written alphabet (both the British two-handed and the French/American one-handed alphabets retain the forms of the Latin alphabet, as the Indian manual alphabet does Devanagari, and the Korean does Hangul), Braille, semaphore, maritime signal flags, and the Morse codes are ...
American Braille – Former braille used for the English language in the United States of America; New York Point – Tactile alphabet invented by William Bell Wait; Chinese respelling of the English alphabet – Chinese pronunciation of the English alphabet; Burmese respelling of the English alphabet – Burmese Transcription
Johannes Pantheus - German author, invented Enochian alphabet (not to be confused with that of Dee) in 1478. Paracelsus - Swiss alchemist, invented Alphabet of the Magi c. 1520. Chögyal Phagpa - Tibetan monk, invented Phagspa script in 1269. Pharnavaz I of Iberia - Iberian king, ascribed development of Georgian alphabet in 284 BC, according to ...
The Greek alphabet, in Euboean form, was carried over by Greek colonists to the Italian peninsula c. 800–600 BCE giving rise to many different alphabets used to write the Italic languages, like the Etruscan alphabet. [33] One of these became the Latin alphabet, which spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their republic.
Franklin modified the standard English alphabet by omitting the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, and adding new letters to explicitly represent the open-mid back rounded [ɔ] and unrounded [ʌ] vowels, and the consonants sh [ʃ], ng [ŋ], dh [ð], and th [θ]. It was one of the earlier proposed spelling reforms to the English language.
Sequoyah (/ s ə ˈ k w ɔɪ ə / sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [a] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, [b] pronounced; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.
The International Phonetic Association was founded in Paris in 1886 under the name Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon (The Phonetic Teachers' Association), a development of L'Association phonétique des professeurs d'Anglais ("The English Teachers' Phonetic Association"), to promote an international phonetic alphabet, designed primarily for English, French, and German, for use in schools to ...
The Phoenician alphabet is the continuation of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet into the Iron Age; it in turn gave rise to the Aramaic and Greek alphabets. To date, most of the writing systems used throughout Afro-Eurasia descend from either Aramaic or Greek. The Greek alphabet was the first to introduce letters representing vowel sounds. [56]