INTERBET (the new VARIANT with corrections of 2008)
In the new version of the
INTERBET (project of the International Alphabet) there are following changes:
a new letter (45th) was
introduced in 2006 – “Eza” (the name comes from resemblance with Z and Greek letter “Eta”). The presence of the third
variant for the vowel E is often useful. For example, in English Eza is always more opened than Egi, but
refers as well to front vowels. As distinct from them, the sign Eyt refers to
the middle vowels and uses mainly for a neutral vowel or as an additional
letter with the wide area of using and some relative meaning. Eza and Eyt can
fulfill different functions in different languages.
The form of the low-case Eza was taken from IPA (the sign for an opened E), but
for a capital one the author has invented the more distinct sign with the fixed
shape.
The
other changing: in general more stylistically strict (classic) form of
capital letters, in particular:
1. Returning of low-case letters Beta, Buki,
Dorn, Fau, Gall/Gamma, Jota, Tefa/Teo and Hetum, Mem to the
earlier forms, as well as versions of
capital letters Shin.
2. Substitution of the low-case letter Tefa/Teo,
because the previous version was similar to the written form of Latin g,
which isn’t close by its meaning and form.
3. Transposition of the meaning of letters Yulla
and Irdu (former
Urmi/Urdu), that is U with crossing by analogy with O with crossing will
represent vowels with Umlaut (mild). That is why a new capital for Irdu/Urmi
appears: (more rigid, then one formed form the low-case -y), and a new capital
for Yulla.
4. Also the new names for these letters are
given Egi/Yege, Gall/Gamma, Geen/Gein, Hade/Hagel,
Keyp/Kappa, Yaro/Rou, Tefa/Teo, Irdu/Urmi, Van/Vayt,
Dzema/Dzeda.
If you want to use the letters of Interbet on practice, you can get the
script INTERBET.ttf, in INTERBET.rar,
where on the different registers you can find all the letters of this
alphabet and some others.