Oral Traditions Engl 337

Online Journal for Engl 337.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Alphabets

After discussing alphabets I though about man made alphabets. The primary two that came to mind were Korean, created in 1446. The other that came to mind where the Tengwar created by J.R.R. Tolkien in the forties for The Lord of the Rings. Both these are near perfect tongues because both were created to fit a language (in The Lord of the Rings an elf invented the Tengwar to fit their tongue). After a bit of thinking I realized the most perfect and exact alphabet is the IPA (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/images/ipachart.gif). It is designed to cover all possible human sounds used in correct speech (there is also a expanded chart including all possible mistakes). The IPA is born more out of all alphabets than any single alphabet.

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