Shavian & other Augmented Alphabets

The Shaw alphabet (column 10), developed by Kingsley Read, is probably the most famous non-roman augmented alphabet for English.  Other notable augmented alphabets such ITA and the broad romic notations by Daniel Jones and Henry Sweet merely supplemented the Latin character set for sounds that were ambiguously represented with digraphs in the traditional English writing system. 
     The matrix below lists 7 augmented and non-roman alphabets. Column 1 uses the numbering system found in James Pitman's book, Alphabets & Reading. Column 2 lists the familiar Roman characters of WES (World English Spelling). WES is very close to ALC Fonetic and New Spelling.  The next column shows some of the earliest shapes associated with the phoneme.  The early shapes represented common objects that began with the phoneme sound.  Egyptian peh (papyrus mat, pad), Semetic pe (mouth), Greek pi.  English words that start with P and name objects that look like the ancient shapes include pout, pad, and pedal. 
     Column 7 lists the PMF graphemes corresponding to the phonemes in Column 2. PMF stands for pictographic monoline fonetic. The name indicates that the shape resembles the name of the shape and that the shape is a very simple stroke. 

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