Travel Phrases using Alternate Alphabets

This page presents the Four Essential Travel Phrases in English (mostly) using alternate alphabets and writing systems.
The purpose of alternative writing systems vary: phonetics/phonemics, secrecy, efficincy, aesthetics, fiction, personal enjoyment, etc.

colorAlphabet

The artist Christian Faur invented the colorAlphabet to map English to colors for both writing and more abstract artwork.

Writing system information at Christian Faur's website and Omniglot

Deseret

The Deseret (or Mormon) alphabet was created in the 1850s to replace the Latin alphabet with a more phonetic system.
It failed to catch on, even in Utah, and was not promoted after the 1860s.

Deseret fonts in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot

Ewellic

The Ewellic alphabet was invented in 1980 by Doug Ewell as an alternate, phonemic way to write English.

Ewellic fonts and a comprehensive Unicode test page for Ewellic in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Writing system information at Doug Ewell's web page and Omniglot

Grand Alphabet

Matthew Whitaker created the Grand Alphabet to unify the writing systems of English, German and Russian.

English:

German:

Russian:

Writing system information at Omniglot

Malachim

Attributed to Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, the Hebrew-based Malachim alphabet was published in 1531 in his Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia (Three Books about Occult Philosophy).

Malachim was popular with secret societies and still sees limited use by Freemasons.

Writing system information at Wikipedia, sacred-texts.com, and Omniglot

Rotor Script

Here's how Simon Whitechapel describes his Rotor script:

Rotor is an experimental script created to realize the concept of letters that literally move on the "page". It consists of seventeen minimal pairs of graphemes in which the members of each pair are identical except for the way they move: for example, unvoiced consonants turn clockwise and voiced consonants anti-clockwise (the only letter that is unambiguous at rest is i, consisting of two "zoophors" turning clockwise). The letter shapes are based on vegetable and microscopic life.

The effect is both mesmerizing and nauseating:

Writing system information at Omniglot

Theban

Although its origins are unknown, Theban was first published in 1531 in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia (Three Books about Occult Philosophy).

Also called the Runes of Honorius and the Witches' Alphabet, it is used today by some modern Wicca as a substitution cipher.

Writing system information at Wikipedia, Eric S. Raymond's draft Theban Unicode proposal, and Omniglot

Visible Speech Notation

Visible Speech Notation was developed by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867. This phonetic alphabet was used in America in the 1800s to help deaf children learn spoken language. The components of the symbols convey information about the sound to be produced. Because of that, Visible Speech is categorized as an "iconic notation".

In 1880 Henry Sweet, a former pupil of Bell's, published an updated version called the "Revised Organic Alpahabet". His changes were based in part on years of practical use of Bell's original system. In Britan, Sweet's version became preferred. Sweet was a supporter of the FTA (Dhi Fonètik Tîcerz' Asóciécon) which evolved into the International Phonetic Association.

Bell's Visible Speech notation



Sweet's revised Visible Speech notation (also known as the Revised Organic Alphabet)

Visible Speech fonts and a comprehensive Unicode test page for Visible Speech in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Writing system information at Wikipedia, Omniglot, and Mark Shoulson's Visible Speech pages

The four essential travel phrases in English: 1) Where is my room? 2) Where is the beach? 3) Where is the bar? 4) Don't touch me there!

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