Shavian Alphabet — Letter to Phoneme Mapping

Each Shavian letter with the phoneme(s) it represents in Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA). Single straight lines indicate a clean one-to-one mapping. Fan lines indicate stress-conditioned or dialect-variable alternations. Dashed lines mark dialect-specific realizations. Compound letters are shown in amber.

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Brandon | ·𐑚𐑮𐑨𐑯𐑛𐑩𐑯

Creator of this Shavian reference work. Contributor to Joro.io. Shavian alphabet enthusiast and tutor.

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RP & GA agree
RP anchor (solid — GA splits below)
RP only
GA only
Dialect-variable (speaker-resolved)
Compound letter
Tall & Deep Consonants · Short Consonants
Short Vowels · Compound Letters

Based on Shavian_Phonemes.xlsx compiled from shavian.info/alphabet and shavian.info/accents. Shavian was designed as a Proposed British Alphabet (Shaw's will, 1950); RP is its native accent. GA mappings reflect General American. Dialect fault lines — bath/trap, cot/caught, north/force — are shown explicitly. Compound letters represent orthographic units rather than simplex phonemes.