MBEARPHABET

Very large extension of the Latin alphabet to make it more compatible to write every language around the world. Latin is being forced onto every language ever, why not make it more suitable for those languages? (Or, y'know, stop forcing Latin script everywhere)

Don't worry, no one language would use all of these letters. I don't think any languages would use even half of these letters. (some languages like Khoisian or Caucasian ones would come very close though. Yes, I made sure this script could write those languages (and the top 100 most common languages of course), figuring then it could write every language.) Any given language would use only a small subset of the letters, whichever ones it would use the sounds for.

I'm aware how it works is very complicated, but basically, a language with a /t/-/tʰ/-/d/ distinction would write the sounds as T ⵀ D. A language with a /t/-/tʼ/-/d/ distinction would write them as ⵀ T D. The few languages that distinguish all four of /t/-/tʰ/-/tʼ/-/d/ would have /tʼ/ be written with the letter usually used for /tˁ/, although I'm considering having it be the /dʱ/ letter instead? (Or at least those four sounds would use the letters T ⵀ D Þ but I'm not sure on which sound is which.) ⵀ is also used for /θ/, as it is derived from Greek theta, however should a language have both /θ/ and a /t/-/tʰ/ or /t/-/tʼ/ distinction, /θ/ can be written Þ (the letter usually used for /ð/ or /dʱ/. If the language has /ð/ as well it can be written Ð (usually /ɖʱ/), etc etc. If a language has too many similar but phonemically distinct sounds you may need to get creative! (or resort to diacritics)

Unlike the IPA, MBearphabet letters represent fuzzy sound categories rather than strict phones. This means each letter can represent a broad range of similar sounds, such as Q being /q/, /kʷ/, or /k͜p/, depending on what the language has. This makes it unsuitable for a narrow transcription system (for which you can just use the IPA), but more suitable for use as an everyday alphabet for a language. (Once again, only a subset of all the letters above would be part of that language's alphabet!)

I'm considering changing MBearphabet a bit to make it look a bit nicer, here's what I have planned:

Sorry it's just crummy drawings/editing, this is just concepts for the ideas, not finalized.

Yes, two (very rare) letters would be removed and replaced with other letters.

OLD VERSION OF MBEARPHABET

The version of MBearphabet shown above is v2. The old v1 is below.

As you can see, it's kind of...a mess. Lot of ugly letters and the only reason there's so many diphthong/triphthong singular letters is because this one person I used to know claimed it was "crucial" for a phonemic orthography for a language to contain singular letters for all of its multiphthongs. (Said person was actually really horrible and has since been cut off but that's off topic.)

This version did have separate letters for ejectives and implosives however, maybe that was better? There are definitely a few decisions here I actually rather like.

CADEXIAN LETTERS

Do you know about the history of the alphabet? Have you ever seen an image like this before?

Notice how some branches just stop at Archaic Greek (such as the one for "𐌈"). This is because they represented sounds the Romans did not distinguish when they adopted the alphabet from the Greeks. But have you ever wondered, what if they did keep these letters? What would they have ended up looking like? Somehow no one else has really thought much about this. I decided to come up with my own interpretations, and I got some input from others too.

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