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> How about this: > http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alphnosemi.htm > > This version makes words like DEE-ah impossible unless spelled 'diia' and it > also leaves 'w' unassigned. Comments? I would be okay with w standing for > umlaut u, or staying unassigned till somebody finds a use for it. That version can very easily be improved just by using j for /j/, w for /w/ and x for /Z/. That way no letter would remain unused and there would be no doubt as to i and u being full vowels or glides. The use of w for /y/ would introduce front rounded vowels into the phoneme chart, but with the inconsistency of using just one of them. Really, I can't understand why there's so strong opposition as to use j for /j/, w for /w/ and x for /Z/. It makes pretty well sense if you consider it from an unbiassed point of view: it makes the best out of the roman alphabet without introducing any awkward oddity I really think you all are showing a very annoying English-prejudiced attitude towards orthography, and if it continues to be so, then I think I will start to show my own Spanish-prejudiced requirements and ask for letter j to be assigned to /X/, letter h to be silent, letter v to be left out or equalled in sound to letter b, letter z to be read as /T/ and so on. Best regards, Javier