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This document introduces the Simple English Alphabet, which aims to simplify the English language through a phonetic writing system. The alphabet uses 24 letters including 8 vowels and 16 consonants. It dispenses with complex spelling rules and double letters in favor of intuitive pronunciation. The alphabet was designed by Punya Pranava Pasumarty based on the Latin script with some Greek and Cyrillic influences. Punctuation and capitalization generally follow standard English usage. A sample text in the new alphabet is provided in an accompanying image.

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This document introduces the Simple English Alphabet, which aims to simplify the English language through a phonetic writing system. The alphabet uses 24 letters including 8 vowels and 16 consonants. It dispenses with complex spelling rules and double letters in favor of intuitive pronunciation. The alphabet was designed by Punya Pranava Pasumarty based on the Latin script with some Greek and Cyrillic influences. Punctuation and capitalization generally follow standard English usage. A sample text in the new alphabet is provided in an accompanying image.

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Simple English Alphabet

Introduction:

This script is one that enables the easy usage of the English language by
having every letter phonetically consistent for the sake of simplicity in
pronunciation. Another reason that it is simple is the fact that unlike the IPA,
which is very technical about pronunciation, this is more intuitive and
quicker to grasp. Punya Pranava Pasumarty has designed this script based on
the Latin Alphabet while making some morphological changes remniscent to
Greek or Cyrillic scripts (but not based on them). This alphabet (if
implemented) has the following aims in mind:

 'dispelling' of complex spelling rules

 easy comprehension of english accents around the globe

 simplified pronunciational notation for English and (possibly) other


European languages too.

For the purpose of writing this script, the standard for pronunciation is
taken to be the Oxford dictionary. Local variations of spelling are permitted
in a limited manner keeping in mind the diversity of nations around the
world and their individual styles of English language.

The Script:

Simple English Alphabet is an alphabet which runs left to right in


horizontal lines, like most Latin based scripts, and unlike the existing English
script, this one has:

 8 vowels (including one modifier)

 16 consonants (including one modifier)


 24 letters in all with capital and small forms

 no usage of double letters*

 one accent i.e. the macron (¯)

* double letters may be used for transliteration purposes (not in English)

A letter is a modifier if it combines with other letters to form


dipthongs or tripthongs like in English 'S' combines with 'H' to form 'Sh'.
Even a macron is a modifier because when applied on any vowel it modifies
its pronunciation without any extra letters. Note that the last letter of the
alphabet (Y) is a vowel that appears only in combination with other vowels
and has no sound in isolation.
Note that whenever an apostrophe (') should be used in the middle of
a word, it is used in the same way as in modern English. In fact, any
punctuation is performed in the same way that the modern English uses it,
and so does capitalization, with the exception that 'Yi' (i.e. I) is not
capitalized unless it starts a sentence.

PLEASE FIND SAMPLE TEXT FOR THIS SCRIPT IN THE ADJOINING IMAGE
WITH THE SAME FILE NAME. FOR THE LACK OF A COHERENT FONT,
THE SAMPLE TEXT IS SCANNED FROM HANDWRITTEN TEXT.

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