Latin-based phonemic orthography for American English
Not to be confused with Unifont.
The beginning of the Lord's Prayer, rendered in modern Unifon (two fonts), and in standard English orthography
Unifon is a Latin-based phonemic orthography for American English designed in the mid-1950s by Dr. John R. Malone, a Chicago economist and newspaper equipment consultant.
It was developed into a teaching aid to help children acquire reading and writing skills. Like the pronunciation key in a dictionary, Unifon attempts to match each of the sounds of spoken English with a single symbol, though not all sounds are distinguished, for example, reduced vowels in other America dialects that don't occur in Chicago. The method was tested in Chicago, Indianapolis and elsewhere during the 1960s and 1970s, but no statistical analysis of the outcome was ever published in an academic journal. Interest by educators has been limited, but a community of enthusiasts continues to publicize the scheme and advocate for its adoption.[1]
Unifon is a Latin-based phonemic orthography for American English designed in the mid-1950s by Dr. John R. Malone, a Chicago economist and newspaper equipment...
cycling under the name of Movistar Team. Argentina (formerly Telefónica Unifón and Movicom BellSouth) Chile (formerly Telefónica Móvil and BellSouth) Colombia...
Cyrillic letter Che. This letter was also used in the first version of Unifon. Lorna A. Priest (2008-04-23). "Proposal to Encode Additional Latin and...
letters, and numerous diacritics. Other scripts, such as John Malone's Unifon, Sir James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet, and Alexander Melville Bell's...
1931–1941 Mongolian Latin alphabet used Ƶ to represent [d͡ʒ]. It is used in Unifon, being the last letter representing the voiced alveolar fricative /z/. It...
Interspel Romic alphabet Shavian alphabet (revised version: Quikscript) Unifon Subsets are reforms that use a restricted wordlist and grammar. English...
and UTC. Archived from the original on 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2015-07-20. "Unifon Extended: U+E6F0 - U+E73F". KreativeKorp. Retrieved 2024-01-14. Bettencourt...
Yurok was written in the Yurok Unifon; some books cited in the Yurok Language Project contain Yurok written in the unifon, though due to practicality in...
languages in the French translation of Ollantay published in 1878. The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.[dubious – discuss] This letter...
International Phonetic Alphabet Inventive spelling Phonics Shavian alphabet Unifon Evaluating the Initial Teaching Alphabet: A Study of the Influence of English...
following is a table of phonemes used by CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The Unifon converter is based on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The Natural Language...
a system of shorthand in 1747. John R. Malone - American, developed the UNIFON alphabet c. 1955. Mesrop Mashtots - Armenian monk, created the Armenian...
spelling, and was intended to allow easy transition to the latter. (See also Unifon, which had similar structure and intent.) The extra letters in fact had...
Initial Teaching Alphabet, i.t.a., ITA". www.itafoundation.org. "Unifon.org". www.unifon.org. "Nue Spelling". Archived from the original on 2007-05-13....
Abugida probably based on Gupta, a Brahmic script, for writing Tibetan Unifon mid-1950s John R. Malone Phonemic alphabet to write the English language...
for the most part, written as they are spoken Dr. John R. Malone invented Unifon in the mid-1950s Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac) in the early...
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