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Dr. Paul Mitrevski has written a 174 page monograf on World English as an International Language which begins with a history of how other European nations developed their alphabets.   He notes that Anglo Saxon embraced the entire Roman alphabet, discarded QKVJ & Z and created  12 new letters forming the 33 letter AS alphabet. 

Paul does not provide a phoneme - grapheme chart so one is provided here.  Since Paul does not specifically describe the R combinations or the second obscure vowel (/3:/ found in the word her), I have guessed at these.

Most orthographies treat vowel combinations as new symbols and therefore feel no obligation to be consistent.  aar may be abbreviated as ar, oor may be abbreviated as or, and so on.

If all orthographers would use the grapheme-phoneme table illustrated below, it would greatly simplify the task of comparing orthographies and avoid possible code overlaps and other inconsistencies. 

The table clearly shows that there are 6 short or checked vowels, aeiou plus a central vowel that is also treated as a [u] in English orthography.

Most orthographies based on IPA or continental sound values prefer to indicate this sound with an [a].  Sweet uses the schwa since the only difference between [a] and schwa is the stress.  Compare these two sounds in "abut" (['bat] in WS)

--Steve Bett


These structured phoneme inventory charts should be
used by all orthographers to insure they have covered the territory
For definitions of unfamiliar words, check the glossary

World English by Paul Mitrevski plus Unigraf, and IPA notations
Phoneme - Grapheme Correspondences for 24+ English Vowels
Unfamiliar graphemes include chekt æq c, free  V C Q W,  and ligatures  H F B D P

12 Pure Vowels
Combinations diphthongs
   
6 Checked 6Free 6 withiand u 8with R (schwa)  
@  /æ/
q   V   aa
Y /ai/  ay
cr  H  aar
 Yr F /ir/air
AX, AT, AS,  ASH ALMS, CALM, AH, a: AISLE, EYE, MY, ICE ARE, CAR, FAR, a:r IRE, FIRE, LIAR, lyre
e
ar   R   'r 
A  /ei/  ey
er  B  er
I (alt. Y), J (alt. hook)
EDGE, LET, EGG HER, 1st, EARTH, 3: ACHE ak, ACE, AGE AIR, BEAR, BERRY
aTR other Unigr@fs
i
E   / i:/  ii
Q /oi/  oi
ir   D   ir
 Z=zh, S=sh
IT, IN, MIT, IF EEL, EAT, AMINO, i: OIL, BOY, VOICE EAR, IRRIGATE, beer
T=th, x=dh,  X=ks, gs
q   //o
o  /:/ oo
O /ou/  ou
or  P  oor
G=ng, 
OX, FOX, ON, ah AWE, OFF, COST, : OAT, OAK, TOTE OR, OAR, ORE, aural
L=al, M=am, N=an
c   /u/   u
C  /u:/  uu
U /ju/  yu
Cr    uur
 Ur  yuur
HOOK, WOOL,wood OOZE, HOOP, GURU USE, JUICE, YEW  TOUR [tu:r], POOR YOUR, PURE [pju:r]
u   /^/   a
a   //    '
W /au/  au
Wr  aur
 wh/hw
UP, CUP, NUT ^ AGO, SOFA, ADO,  OUT, NOW, COW OUR, POWER, flour
not referenced
Read's key words in red. *air [where a is a schwa] is the way that some people pronounce IRE.
The Unigraf system is optimized for TO readers thus A, which can be visualized as an EI ligature, is used for /ei/ and E is used for /i:/.  E can be visualized as an I with a mid bar as in Pitman's Phonotypy.  In the simplified Unigraf orthography an attempt is made to merge as many phonemes as possible.  Thus triphthongs such as air and error use the same symbol [pere, pair, and pear are all per or pB.]. On the other hand, paragraph and parachute are spelled p@rag@f, p@raSUt - as in "I mAd @n erR [BR] wen I bilt xis @rO SApd erplAn [BplAn]."  This practice follows pronunciation dictionaries.

Shaw Alphabet Chart

Unigraf Chart

The problem with aeiou as just short (checked) sounds.

IPA-Broad Romic and  Paul Mitrevski's World English Vowel Notation
   6 checked   |  6 unchecked  |  5 -6 diphthongs  |   4 - 8 with shwa
 Chekt - short  Free - long  Difthongs  4 with schwa
æ (æ) @ a: (a) aa ai (ay) ay a aar | ai ayr
at, ax, ask,  cat alms, want, star  5 eye, ice, bite are, care  |  ire, fire
e (e) e 3: () 'r ei (ey) ey e(e) er
edge get, elbow  3 her, girl, urban ace, ape, vein air, care, there, barely
i  ( i )   i i:  (iy)   ii  oi (oy) oy i:(i)  ir
it, in, index, ill eel, east, very oil, boy, loyal ear, fear, deer, mere
  (o) o : (ao) oo ou (oa) ou o(o) oor
ox, cot, otter awe, call, cost oh, oat, low for, four, floor, more
u  (u) u u: (uu) uu  ju (yu) yu u(u) uur
hook, put, could ooze, zulu, zoo you, few, fuse your,  sure, cure
^  () a ()    ' au (a) au au au  aur
up, cut, putt ago, sofa, unit out, down our, flower, power

Paul's orthography is almost identical to broad romic except for the following character substitutions:  @ for æ, a for up,  apostrophe  '  for schwa, oo for awe. The handling of the r-combinations is not explicit.  Logically, oor would be used for [or] and aar would be used for [ar].
 
 

Phonetic Spelling in UNIGRAF for Shavian
4x6 Vowel Diagram with Unigraf - S

Front
Central
Back
High
Closed
Jaw
sit
i
index
eel sea very
E  i:
 sE El veri
up cut 
u   ^
up cut
few
U iu
fU
hoop pool
C V u:
hCp pCl
hook pull
c Ju
hck pJl
 High
Medium
set
e
elbow
ape ace say
A  ai/ay
Ap As sAy
sofa acute
a
sOfa acUt
oil boy
Q oi/oy
Ql bQ
oak, note, so
O oa/o
Ok, nOt, sO
ought loss
o au/aw
ot   los
 Medium
Low
Open
Jaw
sat ax
@ æ 
sæt, æx
sight highly
Y I
sYt, hYli
what calm
q a/ah
wqt cqlm
her array
R
hR arA
out owl
V ou/ow
Vt   Vl 
copper pot
q
cqpr pqt
  Low
air care
ea er
er ker
ire fire
Ya Yr
Ir fyr
ear deer
ia  ir
ir  dir
are car
qa qr
qa qr cqr
our flower
Wr
Wr flWa
soar/sore
oa  or
sor  sor
poor/pour
Va Vr
pVa pVr
pure
Ua Ur
pUr
error
err
airer
liar/lyre
lyr
lyer
nearer
nir/nirr
neerer
carrier
keriR
cairieyr
power
pWr
pouwer
mower
mOr/moR
mOwr
poorer
pVr'r
poorer
purer
pUwr
pueer
orange=new spelling transcription
12 pure uncombined vowels
18 vowels and diphthongs
8 R-combinations
8 double R combinations