Friday 19 April 2024

The Pulmis Alphabet (new vowels)

Fifteen years after inventing it, I here present the latest version of Pulmis, with new vowels. It is designed to follow Received Pronunciation, rather than just my own dialect (of the East Midlands and Northwest England).


Pulmis is a simple alphabet (hence the name, essentially 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 displaying the lowercase letters.

 



Here are two pairs of sample texts, capital letters only as well as lowercase inclusive. For those who don't recognise them, they are the (contemporary) Lord's Prayer and Article One of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 







One thing I haven't properly got to grips with yet is support for rhoticism. (The solution will probably just be the insertion of R's like in standard English.)

Click here to see the old version(s)