~Dialectal Paleotype

Dialectal Paleotype and was developed by Alexander J. Ellis (1814-1890), a phonetician, philologist and music theorist. Ellis used his invention to represent the sounds of the dialects of English and undertook a major survey of (mainly) rural dialects in Britain in the 1880s.
Ellis created a number of other phonetic transcription systems to represent the sounds of English and considered some of them as suitable replacements for standard English spelling.

Notable features

• Dialectal paleotype is based on the Roman alphabet, and the name means "old alphabet".
• The total number of symbols in this system is over 250, some of which are shown below

A selection of Dialectal Paleotype symbols

Sample text in Dialectal Paleotype (Yorkshire dialect)

Standard English version

He was whining away, says she, for all the world like a sick child, or a little lass in a tizzy.

Links

Information about Alexander J. Ellis and Dialectal Paleotype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ellis
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0110-22