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They developed it as teenagers and had probably never heard of the IPA at that point in their lives. An IPA encoding may not have spread as well as a unique al
by egypturnash 7y ago
They developed it as teenagers and had probably never heard of the IPA at that point in their lives.
An IPA encoding may not have spread as well as a unique alphabet designed by two members of the culture it was intended to work with, either. IPA is an ugly mishmash of Latin and Greek characters with assorted flourishes; the further you get from English and various Romance languages, the more you have to use the fiddly mismatched characters; ADLaM is clearly one set of characters designed to harmonize with each other.