Alternative scripts / notation systems

• Alternative spelling systems
• Phonetic alphabets
• Other notation systems
• Language-based communication systems
• Magical alphabets
• Fictional alphabets
• Writing systems invented by visitors to this site

Alternative spelling/writing systems

These writing and spelling systems are alternative ways of writing English and other languages. Most are designed to make it easier to learn how to write English.

Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet	Deseret	Dialectal Paleotype
Interbet	Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet	Quikscript/Read Alphabet
Shavian	Simpel-Fonetik	Unifon

Phonetic alphabets

These writing systems that can be used to phonetically indicate the pronunciation of any language.

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Visible Speech

Other notation systems

Blissymbolics	Braille	Graffiti
Moon	Shorthand	Solresol
Sutton SignWriting

Language-based communication systems

These communication systems are designed to send messages via flags, lights, sound or electric pulses.

Maritime Signal Flags

-- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • Morse code

Semaphore

Magical alphabets

Alphabet of the Magi	Angelic/Celestial	Daggers
Enochian	Malachim	Passing the River
Theban

Please note

transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square bracketts, like this [b], [p]. etc.
You can learn which sounds are represented by these letters and symbols at:
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page30184.html
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page12580.html (en français)