Unifon means "one sound" and implies one sound per symbol. To achieve this with English the traditional alphabet can be augmented. Unifon adds 17 new letters to create an alphabet with 40 characters. Five of the new letters are for the long vowels. The sounds that correspond to AEIOU are assigned to the capital letters on the keyboard. Variants of K, N, S, Z, T, and D are also assigned to capital letters. Six letter-sound pairs must be learned. cC qQ xY
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