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Encyclopedia > UNIFON

Unifon is a phonetic alphabet for English developed by John Malone in the 1950's. It was developed as a pedagogical aid for helping children acquire reading skills, as it creates a much closer connection between the written word and its pronunciation than does standard English spelling. Several new characters were introduced that corresponds to phonemes in English that are written with multiple letters in standard English spelling. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... John Malone invented the unifon script. ...


The Unifon alphabet

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UNIFON - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (739 words)
UNIFON is a phonemic alphabet developed by John R. Malone in the early 1950's on a contract from the Bendix Corporation.
Malone entered Unifon in the Shaw alphabet competition but since it ignored the requirement that the new alphabet be non-roman, it was disqualified.
Although Unifon was made available to a number of schools in the early 1960's, it was overshadowed by another initial teaching alphabet, Pitman's Augmented Roman.
Unifon alphabet (196 words)
The Unifon alphabet is an alternative way of writing English based on the principle of one letter per phoneme.
Unifon was later found to be useful as a transitory alphabet to help children to learn to read English.
Unifon could also be used as a pronunciation key in English dictionaries.
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