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The Limits of Language. "The artist K. Rakoll has created a phonetic alphabet that can express every human language.…K. Rakoll's alphabet was born in 1994, when Rakoll was visiting a friend in Esopus. He had recently bought a 600-year-old Moorish house in southern Spain, and had become fascinated with its arches. K. Rakoll laid out many drawings of the arches on the floor of the house in Esopus. The writer Sid Hite looked down at the drawings from a balcony, and asked: 'So what is this, some kind of alphabet?'”
Well, why not? JRR Tolkien invented an alphabet for elvish to go with his stories (which I thought was WAY cool when I was in junior high and learned to write it).
Benjamin Franklin invented a phonetic alphabet. There are several other alphabets like that or ones made solely for fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction).
There's a really awesome website called Omniglot (is omniglot.com) that has so much wonderful info on just about every language and writing system from past and present. Anyone with interest in alphabets, word forms and languages will love poking around on it.
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