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Shavian alphabet
𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑
Script type
Alphabet
Creator
Ronald Kingsley Read
Time period
~1960 to present
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
English, Esperanto
Related scripts
Child systems
Quikscript, Revised Shavian, Ŝava
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Shaw(281), Shavian (Shaw)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Shavian
Unicode range
U+10450–U+1047F
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The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, 1962. Paperback cover design by Germano Facetti
The Shavian alphabet (/ˈʃeɪviən/SHAY-vee-ən;[1] also known as the Shaw alphabet) is a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the inefficiencies and difficulties of conventional spelling using the Latin alphabet. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet. It should be:
at least 40 letters;
as phonetic as possible (that is, letters should have a 1:1 correspondence to phonemes);
distinct from the Latin alphabet to avoid the impression that the new spellings were simply misspellings.
^Wells, John C. (2000). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd.
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economical alphabet. This competition was won by Kingsley Read, who developed the Shavianalphabet with most of Shaw's legacy spent demonstrating the Shavian alphabet...
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went on a special phonetic edition of Androcles and the Lion in the Shavianalphabet, published in 1962 to a largely indifferent reception. Shaw's views...
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the depicted 1646 transcription of the Mayflower Compact). In the Shavianalphabet, interpuncts replace capitalization as the marker of proper nouns....
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