These writing and spelling systems are alternative ways of writing English and other languages. Most are designed to make it easier to learn how to write English.
 Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet |
 Deseret |
| Dialectal Paleotype |  Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet |
 Quikscript/Read Alphabet |
 Shavian |
These writing systems that can be used to phonetically indicate the pronunciation of any language.
 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) |
 Visible Speech |
 Alchemical symbols |
 Blissymbolics |
 Braille |
 Moon |
 Shorthand |
 Solresol |
 Sutton SignWriting |
 Yi Jing Hexagrams (六十四卦) |
These communication systems are designed to send messages via flags, lights, sound or electric pulses.
 Maritime Signal Flags |
-- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • Morse code |
 Semaphore |
A brief history of communication systems
https://www.mhelpdesk.com/field-service-management-guide-telecommunications-timeline/
transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square bracketts, like this [b], [p]. etc.
You can learn about the IPA and phonetics at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
http://www.nativlang.com/linguistics/ipa-pronunciation-lessons.php
http://cmed.faculty.ku.edu/acdapres/rabeipa/index.html
https://linguischtick.wordpress.com/ipa/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBo5LAVYtX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2frVKeVTKU
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