User:Tobiasco/alphabets

ULAS

• R1) only use letters from ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) that have a "capital" and "small" variant
• R2) have a minimized set of characters apart from the ASCII letters

• R3) have minimal difference in glyph-phone correspondance between each other
• R4) have minimal deviation from IPA
• R5) treat upper case and lower case as variants of one letter

Vowels

• Quality modifier
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent ´
• Length
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_(diacritic) ->
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent `
• Both
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron ˇ
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex ̂

Background

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/syrien-erdogans-angst-vor-einem-neuen-quasistaat-11834693.html Forbidden letters: "Gerade hat ein Gericht in Diyarbakir ... die Annullierung von 19 kurdischen Namen für Parks und Straßen verfügt, da in den Bezeichnungen die verbotenen kurdischen Buchstaben x oder w enthalten waren."