User:GamerGeekWiki/Phonetic Alphabet

It's no secret I love Phonetics and Linguistics. It's also no secret I hate English Phonetics. I especially despise the letter C.

These days, I just make phonetic alphabets for fun.

New Latin Alphabet
When I was frustrated with the letter C, which is only useful for the /t͡ʃ/, I made The New Latin Alphabet--A bit of an oversight, considering it was a bit Anglo-Centric. Its phonemes were a bit fuzzy, as sounds were vaguely defined, using "ah" for /æ/, for example.

New Latin Alphabet Mk.2
A bit of reform was done. The Phonemes were significantly less fuzzy, as I provided examples, although /θ/ and /ð/ were still confused. It still wasn't as good as the IPA, which I had no idea of.

English Phonetic Alphabet
new!

A modern revival of the early New Latin Alphabet.

It may also be known as American English Phonetic Alphabet (ÆPA) or Californian Phonetic Alphabet (CPA)

NuLA
If The New Latin Alphabet was a small step for man, NuLA was a big step for mankind. This developed while I was on vacation, so I don't have it written down anywhere, but I remember the rules very well.

It sprouted from me discovering a Article about letters dropped from the English Alphabet, like þorne and Æ|æsc. I saw the Æ ligature (which I could type on my phone) and thought, that should make a long A sound (œ makes the long o sound, ee the long e sound, etc.), but thought, no, it's much too archaic to be a thing. Then I discovered the Macron, which is used for marking long vowel sounds. Jackpot!

Later, I discovered consonant voicing. At first I used ◌́ for voiced then ◌̂ but I've used ◌̃ the longest

It was also around this time I discovered the IPA, and saw on the page its scope to only have one way of spelling something, I said that It's okay if a letter is used for two phonemes, but not if two letters represent one phoneme. This philosophy was short-lived, but lasted throughout the NuLA era.

SAPS
SAPS, which stands for Sigma ASCII Phonetic Scheme. It developed months after I had learned the IPA, and I went through the Consonant Chart, assigning what it sounded like. It is all caps, and is typable on the standard keyboard.

A-SPA
new!

A-SPA, or ASCII SPA, is a method of writing phonetically, systematically similar to SPA, but significantly different.

Modifiers

 * Capital stops are aspirated
 * Labialized Consonants and Rounded Vowels are followed by "w"
 * Nasalized Phonemes are followed by "n"
 * Paletalized Phonemes are followed by "y"
 * Voiceless phonemes are followed by "h"
 * Taps are the capital version of the stop, followed by the lowercase, while Trills are two capital versions of the stop
 * Long Phonemes are doubled
 * Geminated Plosives have "|" before them
 * Retracted phonemes are followed by ">"
 * Raised phonemes are followed by "^"

Early SPA
SPA, which stands for Sigma Phonetic Alphabet, had developed briefly before SAPS, but only the concept.The letters were all set to Small Caps, as Ascenders and Descenders got in the way of diacritics. It had diacritics for Voiced and Unvoiced (◌̃ and ◌̄), for Aspiration (◌́), for Rounded and Unrounded (◌̊ and ◌̽) and Vowel/Consonant Length (◌̄) it also had ◌̰◌̥◌̤◌͓◌̯ (◌̃◌ʷ◌̰◌̣◌̤)

WSPA
Stands for Wikipedia SPA. Some letters are miniscule, particularly vowels, and instead of defaulting to Unvoiced OR Voiced (same with roundness), it always starts as Voiced (Unless it's glottal stop?), with Diacritic for unvoiced (◌̽) and defaults to unrounded, with the side effect of /o/ being o̊.

New SPA
The confusion with IPA symbols frustrated me, and thus this version with slightly different symbols was made. Small caps is used less, and it defaults to voiced. It also covers more phonemes.

WSPA
* Not literal articulation

New SPA
* Not literal articulation

SPA
* for /ɚ/. Introduced in New SPA