Universal alphabet

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A universal alphabet is an alphabet designed to enable the user to write down any known language. It is a container for alphabetical characters , which naturally turns out to be far more extensive than the usual inventory of letters of a natural font or a natural writing system.

A well-known universal alphabet is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) from the Weltlautschriftverein API.

Individual new speakers such as orientalists and Africanists, but also phoneticists, have presented several alternative universal alphabets in the last century. The NATO spelling table ( NATO phonetic alphabet ) also counts as a universal alphabet .

See also

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  • A. Kemp (Ed.): Richard Lepsius' Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages ​​and Foreign Graphic Symbols to an Uniform Orthography in European Letters. 1981.
  • Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 2000.