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Nu Folik Fo'netik in a nutshell: 40 fo'no'gramz - a' parch'li dygafik fo'ni:mik no'teishnl sist'm
Alternatives are shown in some cells. The bolder alternative is the notation of choice.  Red letters are redundant. Blue = NF

a	ei é e:	o: ô	b	ch  tsh	d	e	i: í ie	'r  u'r	f
ash ax at	ace eis	awe  o:	boot buut	check	dog	elbow	eel  i:l	urn 'rn	flag
g	h	i	ai `i y	j dzh	k	l	m	n	n, ng
goat go't	horse	in  it	ice ais ys	jaw	kog oks	leg levl	maunt'n	nose no'z	in,got
o  a:	o' o,u'	u. u:u	au	oi	p	r	s	sh  si'	t
odd  alm	oat  o't	hook hu.k	out, owl	oil  boi	pipe	run ro'r	snake	shake	tip
th' dh	th  +h	u ' a'	u:  oo	iu yu	v	w  `w	y	zh  zi'	z
the th'' thy	thug tthy	u'p a'cute	ooze uuz	you  iu	valley	wave hw hweil	yard	azure azhiur	zigzag

Background Colors: yellow: 16 vowels and diphthongs.   brown background: 24 consonants

Vowel positions in the modified alphabetical order are a little odd.  The arrangement works for
a, bar-a, and au, doesnt work that well for a, ei, o:

Vowel order for the 16 vowels could be chaged to :
 

A - 3	E - 2	I - 2	O - 4	U - 5	Notation
a   au   ai  a:	e   ei	i    i:	o   o:  o'  oi	u  u:  iu   u'a'  u'r	Nu Folik
@   W   Y   V	e   A	i   E	q   o   O   Q	c   C   U   u/a   R	Unigr@f
a.  au  ai  a	e.  e	i.  i	o.  o  o'  oi	u.  u   iu   u'a'  'r	Chkt Spl

None of the sounds that English speakers associate with the letter A are found in Latin or in any other
European alphabet.    The Anglo Saxon ash [ae] has been one association, /ei/ is the other.
 

white background: key words which serve as acrophonic letter names as in ABLE, BAKER, CHARLIE…

Text colors: blue: NF spelling  red: silent letters green: an unused alternative spelling.
The sound in odd is imperceptibly shorter than the sound in art and alm. Since they are usually allophones
they are merged in NF. The continental sound value for a is /ah/  the same as the English one for o, also /ah/.
 

 Same chart for the Unigr@f nOtASN

@ ae	A	o  ô	b	K  ch	d	e	E   i	R ar	f
ash @sh	ace As	awe  o:	boot buut	Kek	dog	elbow	eel  i:l	urn Rn	flag
g	h	i	Y /ai/	j dzh	k	l	m	n	G ng
goat go't	horse	in  it	ice Ys	jaw	kick kik	leg levL	maunt'n	nose nOz	iGgat
q a:	O /ou/	c	W	oi	p	r	s	S	t
odd  qd	oat  o't	hook hck	out, WL	oil  boi	pipe pyp	roar ror	snake	shake	tip
x  dh	T	u  a	C  u:	U  yu	v	w	y	Z	z
the  x thy xY	thug Tug thigh Ty	up up abut abut	ooze Cz shoot SCt	use  Uz KUz	valve v@lv	wave hweil	year yir yard yHd	azure aZUr	buzz buz zigz@g

 Background Colors: yellow: 16 vowels and diphthongs.  brown background: 24 consonants
 Unigraf has more than 40 phonograms.  It could be less, a & u could be merged.  aa & o are already merged.
 

 Almost the same 40 grapheme chart for the Truespel Noetaeshun 17v-23c

a	ae	au	b	ch	d	e	ee	er	f
ash, at	ace aes	awe  au	boot buut	chek	dog daug	elboe	eel  eel	urn ern	flag
g	h	i	ie	j	k	l	m	n	air
goat go't	horse	in  it	ice ies	jaw	kick kik	leg levul	mountin	nose noez	care cair
aa	oe	oo	ou	oi	p	r	s	sh	t
odd  aad	oat  o't	hook pool	out  cou	oil  boi	pipe pyp	roar ror	snake	shake shaek	tip
th	tth	u	ue:	yue	v	w	y	zh	z
the thy thie	thug tthug thigh tthie	up up abut ubbut	ooze uez shoot shuet	use  yuez	valve valv	wave waev	year yeer yard yaard	azure azhyur	buzz buz zigzag

 Background Colors: yellow: 16 vowels and diphthongs + yue. brown background: 23 consonants
 Truespel does not consider NG to be a phoneme and adds one r-combination to the list of vowels [air]

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Lesson on the Vowel Quadrilateral and NuFolik

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Reducing Inconsistency: Anyone who has given the topic any thought concedes that there are just too many orthographic options in English spelling and that spelling should be a better guide to pronunciation than it presently is. On the other hand, after spending 10 years learning how to speed read English word patterns, most literate people are relunctant to accept a change that will (temporarily) make reading more difficult and reduce their reading speed. The word patterns may contain inconsistencies but they have been learned.

The only gains for the already literate is (1) the ability to pronounce unfamiliar words and (2) more confident spelling. Few would consider these gains worth the loss of familiar standard spelling patterns.

Cut Spelling retains the basic word shape but all phonemic notations change at least 60% of the word spellings.  The conventional wisdom is that the public will more readily adopt a small change than full alphabetic consistency or a major revolution such as the Shaw Alaphabet.

People will learn a new code if it is not that difficult to acquire and if they can immediately use it to communicate.  People have learned the Shaw Alphabet, but there are not many who are able to communicate in this medium.  Morse code used to be learned and used by HAM operators.  It is still learned as a license requirement, but with advances in technology rarely used.

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