New AngloSaxon Spelling

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Vowels

Letter Value Example TO IPA Name
i ɪ kit kɪt ɪt
e ɛ dres dress drɛs ɛt
a æ trap træp æt
o ɒ lot lɒt/lɑt ɒt/ɑt
y ʌ stryt strut strʌt ʌt
u ʊ fut foot fʊt ʊt
é flés fleece fliːs
á fás face feɪs
í prís price praɪs
œ ɔɪ cœs choice tʃɔɪs ɔɪ
ů (u) gůs goose ɡuːs
ó əʊ/oʊ gót goat ɡəʊt/ɡoʊt əʊ/oʊ
ú múþ mouth maʊθ
ý juː kýt cute kjuːt juː
ér ɪə/ɪɹ nér near nɪə/nɪɹ
ár ɛə/ɛː/ɛɹ skwár/squár square skwɛə/skwɛː/skwɛɹ
ór oː/oɹ fórs force foːs/foɹs
ýr ʊə/ʊɹ kýr cure kjʊə/kjʊɹ
ar ɑː/ɑɹ start start stɑːt/stɑɹt
or ɔː/ɔɹ norþ north nɔːθ/nɔɹθ
ur ʊə/ʊɹ pur poor pʊə/pʊɹ
yr ɜː/ɜɹ nyrs nurse nɜːs/nɜɹs
å ɔː þåt thought θɔːt ɔːs
(a) ɑː faþer father fɑːðə/fɑːðɹ ɑːk


The Ʒ ʒ character

The preferred shape of the letter Ʒ ʒ is not like the IPA ezh, but like the Insular G, (\u1D79), the capital version of which however is not adopted in Unicode yet. I use Ʒ ʒ (ezh) provisionally since the capital version of Insular G is not adopted in Unicode yet, and the small letter also is missing from most Unicode fonts. The preferred shape is shown in this image:

Nasdzh.gif

It should be noted that in NAS this letter denotes the phoneme /dʒ/ and not the phoneme /ʒ/ which is written zj, except before ý where it is written z, e.g. vizjn, azýr.

The ʃ character

NAS uses the ʃ character with its IPA value. Note that it should have a descender, unlike the Latin letter Long s ſ, in order to be maximally distinct from f. The preferred capital form is Capital ʃ, in order to distinguish it from the lower-case form, and from capital S. Since this capital form is unavailable in standard fonts the forms (the Insular capital S) or Ʃ (the 'African' capital ʃ ) may be used, though care should be taken to distinguish from /Ʒ.

Alternative graphies

Letters with acute diacritics may be replaced with digraphs as follows á > aa, é > ee, í > ij, ó > eo, ú > ou, ý > yy, œ > oe, ů > uo, å > oa.

Þ, þ may be replaced with Th th, Ʃ ʃ may be replaced with Sh sh and Ʒ ʒ may be replaced with Cg cg or Gj gj.

BPJ 02:04, 25 February 2006 (PST)


Alternative vowel glyphs

Ɩɩ kit
Ɛɛ dress
Aa trap, father
Ɔɔ lot
Λʌ strut
Ee fleece
Eiglyph.gif face
İi price
Ƣƣ choice
Uu foot, goose
Oo goat
Ɯɯ mouth
Yy cute

One way would be to use ,  for trap and father but ordinary A, a

for face (with Eiglyph.gif as cursive form), likewise ,  for cute and Y, y
for strut — but you need to have Cardo or Junicode installed for those characters to be seen!  

Fþr bɛtr z þ brɩ ɩf he wɔntz tu gɛt hom ɩn tim! — Jɛs amz!

It's all a service to the Anglo terror diacriticorum: if nearly all other languages uses diacritics, then why not English?

BPJ 06:26, 2 August 2006 (PDT) BPJ 13:07, 18 March 2006 (PST)