Kalmasoft Symbolic Phonetic Notation
SPN symbols were carefully designed to represent the anatomy of speech organs while articulating various sounds as precise and intuitive as possible, the notation system is composed of symbols that are easy to memorize and write though not as comprehensive and versatile compared to the current complex IPA symbols for example; SPN symbols simply depict the positions of the tongue and lips and the other articulatory organs as they produce the sound, hence it is a phonetic notation.
SPN is not meant to serve as a writing system and should not be dealt with as such, it is rather a "utility set of symbols" that doesn’t stand by itself for any specific language and should not be considered as a "writing system" in any sense; a separately designed writing system is highly recommended in order to have a complete linguistic solution for any arbitrary targeted language.
All SPN symbols are temporarily assigned in the range EC00-EFFF of the Unicode Private Use Area, so the only way to access or view the symbols is by using the font from within the desktop applications e.g. text editors/word processors or by any other suitable programming solution.
Symbol: the phonetic symbol | IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet corresponding symbol |
Name: symbol name | Articulation: this include both place and manner of articulation, and phonation |
Description: phonetic description | Unicode: Private Use Area code point |
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ID | Symbol | Font | Name | Description | IPA | Articulation | Unicode | Remarks |
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| A | open front unrounded vowel | /a/ | vowel | U+EC00 | |
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| E | open-mid front unrounded vowel | /ɛ/ | vowel | U+EC0A | |
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| I | close front unrounded vowel | /i/ | vowel | U+EC14 | |
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| O | open-mid back unrounded vowel | /ɔ/ | vowel | U+EC1E | |
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U | close back rounded vowel | /u/ | vowel | U+EC28 | ||
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WA | voiced labio-velar approximant | /w/ | U+EC32 | |||
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| YA | Close front rounded vowel | /j/ | U+EC3C | ||
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| glottal stop | /ʔ/ | U+EC46 | Arabic Hamza (ء) | ||
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| HA | voiceless glottal fricative | /h/ | U+EC50 | ||
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| HHA | voiceless pharyngeal fricative | /ħ/ | U+EC5A | Arabic Haa' (ح) | |
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| voiced pharyngeal fricative | /ʕ/ | U+EC64 | Arabic 'Ain (ع) | ||
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| GA | voiced velar stop | /g/ | velar | U+EC6E | |
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| KA | voiceless velar stop | /k/ | velar | U+EC78 | |
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| GHA | Voiced velar fricative | /ɣ/ | veral | U+EC82 | |
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| KHA | voiceless velar fricative | /x/ | velar | U+EC8C | |
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| NGA | voiced velar nasal | /ŋ/ | velar | U+EC96 | |
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| NJA | voiced palatal nasal | /ɲ/ | velar | U+ECA0 | |
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| QA | voiceless uvular stop | /q/ | velar | U+ECAA | Amharic (ቀ) |
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voiceless alveolar affricate | /c/ | U+ECB4 | ||||
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| JA | voiced palatoalveolar affricate | /ʤ/ | palatal | U+ECBE | |
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| CHA | voiceless palatoalveolar sibilant affricate | /tʃ/ | palatal | U+ECC8 | |
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| SHA | voiceless postalveolar fricative | /ʃ/ | palatal | U+ECD2 | |
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| RA | voiced alveolar trill | /r/ | retroflex | U+ECDC | |
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| DA | voiced alveolar stop | /d/ | dental | U+ECE6 | |
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| LA | alveolar lateral approximant | /l/ | dental | U+ECF0 | |
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| NA | voiced alveolar nasal | /n/ | dental | U+ECFA | |
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| SA | voiceless alveolar fricative | /s/ | dental | U+ED04 | |
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| SSA | voiceless alveolar sibilant | /sˁ/ | dental | U+ED0E | Arabic Saad (ص) |
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| TA | voiceless alveolar stop | /t/ | dental | U+ED18 | |
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| DDA | voiceless alveolar stop | /ðˁ/ | dental | U+ED22 | |
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| DHA | voiced dental fricative | /ð/ | dental | U+ED2C | |
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| DDHA | voiced dental fricative/voiced alveolar sibilant | /ðˁ/ | dental | U+ED36 | |
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| ZA | voiced alveolar fricative | /z/ | dental | U+ED40 | |
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| ZHA | voiced alveolo-palatal fricative | /ʑ/ | U+ED4A | ||
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| THA | voiceless dental fricative | /θ/ | dental | U+ED54 | |
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| TSA | voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate | /ts/ | U+ED5E | ||
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| TTA | /tˁ/ | dental | U+ED68 | Arabic Taa' (ط) | |
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| VA | voiced labiodental fricative | /v/ | labiodental | U+ED72 | |
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| FA | voiceless labiodental fricative | /f/ | labial | U+ED7C | |
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| MA | voiced bilabial nasal | /m/ | labial | U+ED86 | |
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| BA | voiced bilabial fricative | /b/ | velar | U+ED90 | |
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| PA | voiceless bilabial stop | /p/ | labial | U+ED9A | |
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| Double vowel | ː | U+EDA4 | Long vowel |
Quantities are represented using special symbols depicting numbers, these are added for consistency purpuses; SPN numbers are self-explanatory, each symbol depicts the count of angles, symbols with closed shapes (triangles) are the higher values of the decimal system. |
ID | Symbol | Font | Value | Name | Unicode | Remarks |
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| 0 | Zero | U+EF00 | |
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| 1 | One | U+EF01 | |
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| 2 | Two | U+EF02 | |
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| 3 | Three | U+EF03 | |
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| 4 | Four | U+EF04 | |
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| 5 | Five | U+EF05 | |
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| 6 | Six | U+EF06 | |
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| 7 | Seven | U+EF07 | |
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| 8 | Eight | U+EF08 | |
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| 9 | Nine | U+EF09 |
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