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Cover of Volume 35 of The Phonetic Journal (1876) Kingston Buildings in Bath where The Phonetic Society was located [ 1 ] The Phonetic Journal was the official journal of The Ph...

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Cover of Volume 35 of The Phonetic Journal (1876)
Kingston Buildings in Bath where The Phonetic Society was located[1]

The Phonetic Journal was the official journal of The Phonetic Society based at the Kingston Buildings in Bath, Somerset, England and is the first ever journal about phonetics. It was published subtitled as Published Weekly, Devoted to the Propagation of Phonetic Shorthand, and Phonetic Reading, Writing and Printing.

It was printed starting 1841 by Isaac Pitman, and published by F. Pitman at the Phonetic Depot, at 20, Paternoster Row, in London. The journal was initially in 12 small pages plus a 4-page advertising and information wrapper per issue. It published materials in traditional spelling as well as in phonetic spelling, and phonetic shorthand. It also included news of the Phonetic Society and its members.

The Phonetic Alphabet

The journal promoted The Phonetic Alphabet. It explained the alphabet promoted as "consisting of 36 letters, namely the 23 useful letters of the common alphabet (c, q and x being rejected) and 13 new letters included. The vowels a, e, i, o, u were used for their short sound as in pat, pet, pit, pot and put and all the other letters having their usual signification".

A proposed order of the alphabet was as follows:

Consonants: p, b; t, d; ç, j; k, g; f, v; [th], [dh], s, z; ʃ, ʒ; m, n, ŋ; l, r; w, y; h.

Vowels: a, ɐ; e, ɛ; i, [ee]; o, [o]; γ, σ; u, ɥ.

Diphthongs: ei (as in by), iu (as in new), ou (as in now), ai (as in ay), oi (as in ay).

The alphabet also included 9 "foreign sounds", 7 from French and 2 from German.

Further contributions for a proposed alphabet

Pitman published Phonotypy in 1844, his major work on spelling reform just three years after the founding of the journal. Pitman and Alexander John Ellis, an English mathematician and philologist jointly proposed in 1845 an English Phonotypic Alphabet made up of 40 letters based mainly on the Phonetic Alphabet of The Phonetic Journal in The Phonotypic Journal, a sister publication.[2]

Además, en un libro editado en 1848, bajo el título A Plea for Spelling Reform ( Una defensa de la reforma ortográfica ), Ellis y Pitman recopilaron una serie de artículos de The Phonetic Journal y de otras publicaciones periódicas, recomendando un alfabeto ampliado y "Una ortografía reformada del idioma inglés" como "un medio para poner las artes de la lectura y la escritura al alcance de todos los que hablan el idioma inglés o desean aprenderlo", como dijo Pitman en la introducción.

Véase también

Notas

  • Volumen de muestra de The Phonetic Journal. (Vol. 41 del año 1882)

Referencias

  1. ↑ Mason, Cai (25 de enero de 2019). "Abadía de Bath: Revelaciones de las Cámaras de la Abadía, los Edificios de Kingston y el 4.º Instituto Fonetik" . Arqueología de Wessex . Consultado el 26 de octubre de 2024 .
  2. ↑ "Completación del alfabeto fonotípico" . The Phonotypic Journal . 4 (42). Bath: Phonographic Institution: 105–106 . Junio ​​de 1845.