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I'm more partial to an entirely new alphabet,
Eklızıæstiku̇ſ, 34:18-21
Levitiku̇ſ, 19:33-34
R fully becomes a semi vowel same as U to W or I to Y, several grammar words get Shavian style abbreviations for brevity, and where french has accents, spanish has the ñ, and german has umlauts, the expanded english vowels have single dots the way lower case i already does.
Mate just use IPA, at that point.
IPA is less readable, also this is an orthographic alphabet, the true letter count is much smaller, and it actually gets even smaller if you use the "sloppy" version, which is basically just grabbing an Alphabet language Gboard for þ ð ŋ and ſ, using ue oe and ae as needed, and using u o i e a as you would their dotted (or undotted in i's case) counterparts and just hoping context makes clear what the literal text doesn't necessarily.
You designed this for GBoard?
That explains it, I guess...
Would you believe me if I told you that the dot letters were actually what made up the majority of what isn't in the keyboard normally?
This is awful and you need to stop right now.
Qit haṙcıŋ muı tcil bro.
Went through the whole thing expecting to speak German, was very disappointed.
I mean English is a germanic language, not too surprising how german phonemic spelling would look considering how much of our fucked up current system is owed to trying to make loan words consistent with their language of origin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2o4rkq/english_to_become_official_language_of_the_eu/
That... That is glorious.