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From: "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel@hotmail.com>
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I've been investigating respelling languages. I have respelled English
totally phonetically. The idea now is to see how many different phonemes
are out there that could not be handled by the English 40-phoneme set and
thus need special spellings. My initial look into 30 words/phrases from
word-of-the-day at travlang.com for 13 major languages other than English
shows that 10 new phonemes are needed for these languages (I may not have
them all yet). But the percentage is what is most interesting. They make
up only 5% of the total. If this trend holds up, the basic 40 phonemes of
English make up 95% of the used phonemes of world language. So a phonetic
spelling of English has large transfer possibilities.
Even within English, the 40 phonemes (sounds) of English are spelled all
kinds of ways (My analysis found nearly 400 ways). This makes it difficult
to learn. Truespel uses a spelling set favorable to English. It also is a
pronunciation guide because it shows stress sylables in a word by putting a
double consonant before them (defaul stress is first syllable. It is public
at the address below so teachers and students have open access. Developers
are welcome.
tom zurinskas
truespel@hotmail.com
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Convert English to truespel (USA accent) by copy/pasting at
http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm
Truespel is the world’s first phonetic spelling based on English, using no
special symbols, showing syllabic stress, and proposed for all languages.
See truespel.com. Also see
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/Truespel-1.html
>From the 59,000-werd truespel dictionary
The key to the 40 soundz of Eenglish (USA accent)
ID # sound % Sample words
v1 i 9.9% sit
v2 ee 5.0% see
v3 er 3.4% her
v4 u 3.3% up
v5 e 2.6% beg
v6 a 2.1% bad
v7 ae 2.1% sundae
v8 aa 1.9% aardvark,Saab
v9 ie 1.4% pie
v10 oe 1.4% toe
v11 oo 1.2% good
v12 ue 1.2% blue
v13 or 0.7% or
v14 au 0.4% auger
v15 air 0.4% fair
v16 ou 0.4% out
v17 oi 0.1% toil
k1 n,nn 7.8% in
k2 s,ss 6.8% sin
k3 t,tt 6.8% tip
k4 l,ll 5.4% lift
k5 k,kk 4.1% kid
k6 d,dd 4.0% did
k7 r,rr 3.9% rat
k8 z,zz 3.7% zap
k9 p,pp 3.3% pub
k10 m,mm 3.0% mist
k11 g,gg 2.6% good
k12 b,bb 1.7% bad
k13 f,ff 1.7% fair
k14 y,yy 1.6% yet
k15 sh,ssh 1.2% wish
k16 v,vv 1.2% van
k17 w,ww 1.2% wag
k18 j,jj 0.8% just
k19 h,hh 0.7% hat
k20 ch,cch 0.5% chin
k21 thh,tthh 0.3% thin
k22 th,tth 0.1% that
k23 zh,zzh 0.1% vision
100.0%
> >
Truespel Dikshinairee
toetool foeneemz = 432,058
toetool werdz = 59,252
foeneemz per werd = 7.3
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