alfare
Alfare is a logical phonetic alphabet, inspired by the Alfunanto of Matthew “Napishtim”, which was specially designed to write Mundeze. It matches the shape of the letters with their pronunciation (the position of the stems and the “belly” indicates respectively the mode and the articulation point of the consonants):
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a | e | o | i | u | ||
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k | c | s | t | f | p | |
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g | j | z | d | v | b | |
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h | l | n | r | m |
As can be seen, consonants are all written with a long stem, and the voiced letters are all written with a loop on it. To transcribe the French “R”, we could write “ha” (


Example text
Latin alphabet | una linare a versara klame a ta mocey ola te danasko libri ni sami lu suconke ni moce. ley avi logable ni sutse, ni muti sereto kosadi. |
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In English | ARTICLE ONE OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. |
I think… we will need more help for the translation from french to english.