The World Orthography (WO) is an alphabet and transcription system based on the
Africa Alphabet
The Africa Alphabet (also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet) was developed by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures in 1928, with the help of some Africans led by Diedrich Hermann Westermann, who served as d ...
and the
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic transcription, phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standa ...
. In
Daniel Jones’s 1948 ''Difference between Spoken and Written Language'', an adaptation of WO for English is given with the letters a b c d ð e ə f g h i j k l m n ŋ o p r s ʃ t θ u v w x y z ʒ. The capitals of ð, ə, ŋ, ʃ, θ, and ʒ are: Ð (shaped like Ƌ), Ə, Ŋ (shaped like large ŋ), Ʃ (shaped like sigma Σ), Θ, and straight-bottomed Ʒ (shaped like reversed sigma).
Examples
English sample from Jones 1948:
Sinhala sample, ''
The North Wind and the Sun
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'', from Perera and Jones 1938:
See also
*
Africa alphabet
The Africa Alphabet (also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet) was developed by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures in 1928, with the help of some Africans led by Diedrich Hermann Westermann, who served as d ...
*
Latin-script alphabet
A Latin-script alphabet (Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet) is an alphabet that uses letters of the Latin script. The 21-letter archaic Latin alphabet and the 23-letter classical Latin alphabet belong to the oldest of this group. The 26-letter ...
*
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic transcription, phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standa ...
*
Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
The Standard Alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius. Lepsius initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs in his ''Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien'' and extended it to write African languages, publi ...
Notes
References
* Firth, J. R. 1933. “Notes on the Transcription of Burmese”, ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'', volume VII, part 1, January 1933, pp 137–140.
* Firth, J. R. 1936. “Alphabets and Phonology in India and Burma”, ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'', volume VIII, part 2-3, January 1936, pp 517–546.
* Harley, Alexander Hamilton. 1944. ''Colloquial Hindustani''. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co. ltd.
* Jones, Daniel. 1942. The problem of a national script for India. Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons.
* Jones, Daniel. 1948. Differences between Spoken and Written Language.
* MacMahon, Michael K.C. 1991. “The International Phonetic Alphabet”, in Malmkjær, Kirsten (ed). ''The Linguistics encyclopedia''. London: Routeledge.
* Perera, H. S. ; Jones, Daniel. 1938. “The Application of World Orthography to Sinhalese”, ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'', volume IX, part 3, October 1938, pp 705–707.
Latin-script orthographies
Writing systems introduced in 1948
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