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Visible Speech

( a script )

Type of script: Featural
Script category: Phonetic scripts
Number of characters: 120
Created by: Alexander Melville Bell
Period of use: 1867 - ?
Names: Visible Speech

A phonetic writing system intended to be used to teach the deaf to learn spoken language. Was widely used to teach deaf students to speak with a standard accent.

More information

Article:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Speech   
Article:    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2001/ling001/visible_speech.html   
Article:    http://www.omniglot.com/writing/visiblespeech.htm   

Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian.