Westonian (Uɛzлɔuɴиəɴ Hʟoıəʙɛл)

The Westonian Alphabet was created and developed in 2011 by N. Weston as an alternate means to write English or a constructed language. It is based on the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and International Phonetic alphabets.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write: English
Mostly phonetic, though allows for some flexibility.
Contains a 'modifier', which is a single stroke written after a letter, changing its sound.
Contains 13 consonants, though 11 of them can be 'modified'.
Contains seven vowels, including a schwa.
All letters are derived from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA.
All letters are the same height.
All letters are available in Unicode.

Westonian Script

Westonian consonants

Westonian vowels

Sample text

Ɔʟ xиuмəɴ ʙииɴız αг ʙɔгɴ oıги нɴп иʌuəʟ иɴ пиvɴəли нɴп гαилz. Пıɛɴ aг ɛɴпɔuп uипı гиzəɴ нɴп ʌɔɴcəɴz нɴп cuʟп нʌл лuuɔгпz uαɴ αɴαпıəг иɴ α zoигəл ɔʙı ʙгαпıəгxuп.

Transliteration

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Keyboard

Since Westonian is composed entirely of Unicode characters, it can be typed with the keyboard layout here.

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