Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet as follows: Franklin's proposed alphabet included seven letters to represent vowels. This set consisted of two new letters, in addition to five letters from the existing English alphabet: a, e, i, o, u. The first new letter was a formed as a ligature of the letters o and a, and used to represent the sound (as written in IPA). The second, ɥ, was used for . Franklin proposed the use of doubled letters to represent what he called long vowels, represented by modern phonemes thus: as the long-vowel variant for (or, in his notation, "cɩcɩ" versus "cɩ"), for ("ee" versus
Osage alphabet or the links below. The 2006 vowels are as follows: It is not clear which vowel the "ə" is, as it is not phonemic in Osage, but it may appear nasalised (not shown). The "a" comes from Latin (without the crossbar, as in the NΛSΛ logo), "e" from Latin (cursive; the English letter "a" is pronounced rather like Osage "e"). The source for "i" is obscure, though Latin does appear in the diphthong "ai". The 2006 consonants are as follows: The alphabet does not distinguish the ejective, fortis and lenis series of obstruents. The aspirate series are written as sequences