The Pulmis Alphabet (old vowels)

Click here for the version with updated vowels 

In 2008/9, I invented an alphabet for English (or rather for my own dialect of British English) which I called Pulmis. Here's an updated version of the schematic that can be found on the Omniglot website.

Pulmis is a simple alphabet (hence the name, a rearrangement of the word simple) and it is also supposed to be quasi-phonetic in the shape of the letters. The following image illustrates this featural character, as well as presenting the lowercase letters.

And here's the uppercase sample from omniglot (reproducing part of Nelson's prayer before the Battle of Trafalgar) and below it, a lowercase-inclusive version of the same text.

I have produced an accents-free version of Pulmis, whose additional letters (Y,W,H) which I'm not really satisfied with, are thus:

Finally, here are the numerals, which I'd neglected before. They're derived from the existing ones, so in a sense they're plugging the gap until a proper a priori set is created...

Eleven years after releasing Pulmis, I want to mention some possible variations. (1) Support for rhoticism by inserting the letter R where it occurs and where it is silent in non-rhotic dialects. (2) Interpretation of unaccented vowels (in multisyllabic words) as schwas, with non-schwa simple vowels denoted by a new dot accent. This is essentially how SoundSpel handles the schwa. (3a) Have two "short U" vowels, as per dictionary-English, instead of one. (3b) Have two "long O/U" vowels instead of one, probably achieved by reinterpreting the current "long back A" as the "long mid O", and making the unused "long front A" into the "long back A".

 

Update. A streamlined vowel system that only needs one accent (for length), implementing the aforementioned idea 3 – and compatible with idea 2.