International Latin Alphabet 2016
The Unified Latin Alphabet, version 2016 is a part of the Unified Alphabet System.
Rules
It applies the following rules:
- Character inventory
- Use only characters from ISO 8859-1.
- prefer 65-90, (A-Z) and 97-122 (a-z), i.e. ISO 646
- from the others, prefer for vowels those that are present in several other ISO 8859 standards, i.e. characters with acute, grave, circumflex or diaeresis
- Use only characters from ISO 8859-1.
- Character - sound correspondence
- a, e, i, o, u, y with or without diacritics represent vowels.
- j and w represent semivowels as in IPA
- the rest represent consonants
- In the ULA-base form all characters except for c = /ʃ/ and q = /ʒ/ have the value as in IPA.
System | Comment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ULA-2016 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Unicode range: 0041--005A |
ULA-2016 | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | Unicode range: 0061--007A |
IPA | a | b | ʃ | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | ʒ | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |