Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English
Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English

Summary/Abstract: The present work describes the underlying principles of the 2002 Basic Roman Spelling of English [4] aimed at providing an alternative English orthography for international usage. This has been developed by Lyubomir Ivanov, who introduces here a new construction for that system, and proposes a closely related Roman phonetic alphabet to be used for the pronunciation respelling of English without special characters or diacritics. A comparison is made with Interspel [11], a system developed by Valerie Yule that attempts to maximize the advantages and remove the disadvantages of traditional spelling of English, to benefit learners, users and international communication.

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