The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)

The 1847 Alphabet

The 1847 Alphabet is a phonemic alphabet invented by Isaac Pitman and Alexander J. Ellis.

Tower of Babel in The English Phonetic Alphabet

Source: The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments according to the authorized version arranged in paragraphs and parallelisms, and printed phonetically. Fred Pitman, London, 1850.

Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl

The Tower of Babel in alternative writing systems

Deseret, Gregg Shorthand, Pitman Shorthand, Shavian, The 1847 Alphabet

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