Unifon
  Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence Tables
  1. HTML Table
  2. Graphic with caption
  3. Graphic without caption
  4. Older graphic without caption in color
  5. Older graphic muti colored and coded

    6.  
............. The first table is not a graphic. Viewers would have to have the Unifon font installed to see the Unifon characters.
 
YnifOn alfcbet  c 1959 John Malone 
a
AND
A
APE
x
ALL
b
BOW
K
CHiCK
d
DO
e
EL
E
EAT
c
HER
f
FOX
g
GO
h
HOT
i
IN
I
EYE
j
JAW
k
KID
l
LOW
m
MAN
n
NO
N
RING
o
ON
O
OLD
C
HOOK
q
OUT
Q
OIL
p
PIPE
r
RUN
s
SIS
S
SHOW
t
TOW
D
THE
T
THIN
u
UP
U
HOOP
Y
YOU
v
VEST
w
WIG
Z
AZURE
y
YES
z
ZIP
Unifon - a transitory alphabet for English

page 530.  Coulmas, F. [1996] Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems

Unifon  A phonemic transcription system devised in 1959 by John Malone
from Chicago as a transitory alphabet intended to facilitate the learning of 
English spelling in the first and second langauge classrooms.  The 40 letter 
Unifon alphabet makes use of 18 new letters and eliminates 3 old ones [c x q]. 

Practice using the Unifon keyboard equivalents - shown in the blue chart below
Transcription tutorial

Challenge: Transcribe the key words in the above chart and send them to stbett@yahoo.com
and-and, ape-Ap, all-??, bow-bO,

The following charts are graphics [gif files]
It would save space if just the letters were graphics.
In fact with individual letters as graphics we could make a spell your name
in UNIFON page.  This is not hard to do but takes about 30 hours.

We could put a sound file behind each graphic.
I wil do two just to show how it could be done.

When the chart in the Coulmas book are compared to the charts on our website,
several differences can be noticed.  The letter OIL is a flipped OUT rather than a rotated OUT with an added I.  [any comments?]

Notice that the order in the last row is not standard. 
The letters HOOP and YOU have been reversed in the published table. 
Malone created 41 characters, one of the W's was for hw as in when.    [see Culkin]

The following table provides the keyboard location of the vowels and the non-obvious sound signs.  If there is no small letter in the upper right hand corner of the cell, then the letter is the same as the one on the key caps.  


 

  

I like this one because it provides the keyboard equivalent for the difficult sound signs.
 
 

Give me a new caption and I will try to do something similar for Unifon.

Transcription exercise

see game 1
      game 2
 

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