The Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English is a system based on the Extended Basic Roman spelling of English. The Extended Basic Roman is close to one-to-one phoneme- grapheme correspondence, paving the way to a pronunciation respelling for English by means of the closely related Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English. Recently this approach has been used to design the 2017 Streamlined System for the Romanization of Russian aimed at replacing the plethora of systems currently occurring in the non-academic practice of transliteration of Russian Cyrillic. This ‘streamlined approach’ has been successfully tested in the case of Bulgarian language, with the 1995 Streamlined System for the Romanization of Bulgarian becoming established in Bulgaria (eventually codified in a 2009 law), and adopted also by UN in 2012, and for official US and UK use by BGN and PCGN in 2013. Shi olsou faund dhat shi kud meyk inaf mani in eyt manths tu bay haaself tuu lavli hyuj nyu juualz tuu.Īpart from respelling of English, the Basic Roman could also be used as the target spelling of a universal algorithm for the designing of superior, user-friendly Romanization systems transliterating and transcribing a variety of languages. “Ay paasiyv moust saatanli dhat it iz olmoust houli wayt,” shi thoot. Insted, shi yuzd haa imajineyshan, and muuvd intu dha fotografi biznis, and tuk pikchaz av dha muun in kala. “Yu mayt faynd yoo haats dizaya.” Dha fea prinses laaft, bikoz shi dautid dhiyz waadz. “Luk thru dha senta av dha muun hwen it iz bluu,” sed haa royal madha in ansa tu haa kweschan. Wans apon a taym, dha byutiful doota av a greyt majishan wontid moo paalz tu put amang haa trezhaz. The above sample text would appear in Extended Basic Roman (non-rhotic version) as follows:

Shi olsou faund dat shi kud meyk inaf mani in eyt mants tu bay haaself tuu lavli hyudzh nyu juualz tuu.Ī more elaborate version of the system is the Extended Basic Roman spelling of English, which uses also the letters ‘j’ and ‘w’, and has two specific two-letter combinations for the English voiced and voiceless dental fricatives. “Ay paasiyv moust saatanli dat it iz olmoust houli wayt,” shi toot. Insted, shi yuzd haa imadzhineyshan, and muuvd intu da fotografi biznis, and tuk pikchaz av da muun in kala. “Yu mayt faynd yoo haats dizaya.” Da fea prinses laaft, bikoz shi dautid diyz waadz. “Luk tru da senta av da muun huen it iz bluu,” sed haa royal mada in ansa tu haa kueschan. Uans apon a taym, da byutiful doota av a greyt madzhishan uontid moo paalz tu put amang haa trezhaz. She also found that she could make enough money in eight months to buy herself two lovely huge new jewels too. “I perceive most certainly that it is almost wholly white,” she thought. Instead, she used her imagination, and moved into the photography business, and took pictures of the moon in colour. “You might find your heart’s desire.” The fair princess laughed, because she doubted these words.

“Look through the centre of the moon when it is blue,” said her royal mother in answer to her question. Once upon a time, the beautiful daughter of a great magician wanted more pearls to put among her treasures. are spelled ‘dootar’, ‘haart’, ‘pikcharz’ etc.): Yule is given in traditional spelling and in Basic Roman (shown is the non- rhotic version in the rhotic one, relevant words like ‘daughter’, ‘heart’, ‘pictures’ etc. The letters ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘w’ and ‘x’ are not used (letters ‘j’ and ‘w’ are used in an extended version of the Basic Roman spelling, see below).īy way of illustration, the following reference text by V. The system uses 22 Roman letters to represent the set of English phonemes considered by J.C. Instead, it gives one way to spell the different varieties of English. The Basic Roman system serves no particular standard of English pronunciation.

Short vowels and consonants are spelled as in the tradition of most Romanized languages.

Diphthongs are spelled by their components, and long vowels either as diphthongs or by doubling the letters of the short vowels.

Short vowels are spelled by single letters, while long vowels and diphthongs are spelled by two-letter combinations.

One spelling, with no phoneme (sound) written by two or more graphemes (letters).

The basic Roman alphabet, with no additional letters or diacritics used.

The Basic Roman spelling of English is a 2002 proposal for regular English spelling.

Alphabet for spelling words