The Anthropos phonetic alphabet is a phonetic transcription to be used in the journal '' Anthropos'' and published by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1907. Transcription is italic, without other delimiters. It shares similarities with Karl Richard Lepsius’

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or some Americanist phonetic notations Edward Sapir and

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introduced to the United States.

Consonants

Palatalized consonants are written with an acute – ' etc. Semivowels are ' etc.

Vowels

Vowels are inconsistent between languages. ' etc. may be used for unrounded central vowels,The central vowels shown here do not appear in the main vowel charts, but occur in various illustrations. and the -based letters are poorly defined, with height and rounding confounded. There are actually three heights of low front and back vowels. ' is also seen for a low back vowel. Reduced (obscure) vowels are ' etc. There are also extra-high vowels ' etc.

References

Phonetic alphabets Writing systems introduced in 1907 Obsolete writing systems {{improve categories, date=January 2024