I spent my teaching career in large part trying to train Canadian college students to spell their own language. (Those were 40 years I'll never get back.) At Kílala Lelum, we walk alongside our ...

Backers of a universal alphabet say it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding. But can phonetic spelling systems really smooth the path to world peace? You are in Vietnam ...

Backers of a universal alphabet say it will make pronunciation easy and foster international understanding. But can phonetic spelling systems really smooth the path to world peace? You are in Vietnam ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

THE problem of the perfect language has busied philosophers and philologists from time immemorial. Its conditions can be very simply stated. They are: an alphabet consisting of symbols and diacritic ...