Welcome to shavian.org

Welcome to shavian.org. Not much here at the moment.

"Shavian" here stands for what is also called the "Shaw alphabet", a phonetic alphabet to represent the English language. There's not much here yet. If you have information about Shavian that you want to put up at shavian.org, or if you want a link to your site, please contact Philip Newton. Note that the address that was previously advertised here, shavian@newton.digitalspace.net, does not work any more. It's turned into a spamtrap and so I shut it down.

This site also has some information about languages of Almea such as Verdurian, Cadhinor, and Cuêzi, as well as some resources for speakers and would-be speakers of those languages.

Here are some links about Shavian:

• Fonts: See the separate fonts page (NEW 2009-01-09; thanks to Thomas Thurman)
• Mailing lists:
  • Shavian at Yahoo!Groups (the older list, with many posts and resources in the archives -- but also, unfortunately, with occasional spam)
  • ShawAlphabet at Yahoo!Groups (a newer list, created mostly in reaction to the spam on the older one)
• Pages from David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts:
  • Unicode fonts containing Shavian letters
  • Unicode test page for Shavian
• Making GNOME applications display messages in the Shaw alphabet (NEW 2008-09-19)
• Firefox Add-on for transliterating web pages into the Shaw alphabet automatically (NEW 2008-11-27)
• Hugh Birkenhead's Shavian forums - NB the forums mostly use the font "Shaw Sans No. 2"; get it here, along with other Shavian fonts, if you haven't got it yet.
• New English Alphabets.com
• The Shaw Alphabet (and a comparison of various other alternative spellings for English)
• Shavian Alphabet at Omniglot - a guide to writing systems
• Some texts in Shavian, on Gary Shannon's pages (Unfortunately, that site appears to be dead as of 2001-12-07.)
• Shavian documents on Scott Harrison's site (some of these require a Unicode Shavian font)
• Hugh Birkenhead's site -- click on "Shavian" in the left-hand frame
• Andy Callaway's downloads page -- contains two Shavian fonts and a translator program (dead?)
  • Apparently Andy's site is now reachable via http://www.geocities.com/andy_callaway/.
• Phillip Driscoll's home page, with some more Shavian fonts
• Bob Richmond's home page
• DeMeyere's pages about Shavian. These were the first pages about Shavian that I was aware of. Also has a couple of fonts for download.
• Lionel Ghoti's Shavian site. Recommended!
• www.shawalphabet.com, a site by Paul Vandenbrink, providing an overview of a Revised version of the Shavian alphabet (and describes how he revised S.A.)
• Shavian in the Unicode standard: U+10450 - U+1047F (80K PDF)
• Shavian in the ConScript Unicode Registry: Registry entry and mapping to proposed Unicode code points (U+10450..U+1047F)

And here are some on Quikscript:

• Ewout Stam's site on Quikscript (dead as of 2006-04-26)
• Quikscript Outpost—serving the Quikscript community since 2003