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The '''Basic Roman''' spelling of [[English language|English]] is a 2002 proposal for regular English [[spelling]].<ref>L.L. Ivanov, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121019221152/http://members.multimania.co.uk/rre/Romanization.html On the Romanization of Bulgarian and English], ''Contrastive Linguistics'', '''28''' 2003: 109-118. {{ISSN|0204-8701}}; ''Errata, id.'', '''29''', 2004 p157. {{WebCite|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5msMMogMW|date =2010-01-18}}</ref><ref name="Skordev">L. Ivanov, D. Skordev and D. Dobrev. [http://www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/fmi/logic/skordev/B1-Ivanov-Skordev-Dobrev.pdf The New National Standard for the Romanization of Bulgarian]. ''Mathematica Balkanica''. New Series Vol. 24, 2010, Fasc. 1-2. pp. 121–130. {{ISSN|0205-3217}}</ref> It is based on five principles:
* The basic [[Roman alphabet]], with no additional letters or [[diacritic]]s used;
* One spelling, with no [[phoneme]] (sound) written by two or more [[grapheme]]s (letters);
* Short vowels are spelled by single letters, while long vowels and diphthongs are spelled by two-letter combinations;
* [[Diphthong]]s are spelled by their components, and long vowels either as diphthongs or by doubling the letters of the short vowels;
* Short vowels and consonants are spelled as in the tradition of most Romanized languages.<ref name="multiple">L. Ivanov & V. Yule [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512140742/http://members.multimania.co.uk/rre/RPA-Paper-2007.html Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English], ''Contrastive Linguistics'', '''32''', 2007: 50-64. {{ISSN|0204-8701}} {{WebCite|url=https://www.webcitation.org/617xl39Eo|date =2011-08-22}}</ref>

The Basic Roman system serves no particular standard of English pronunciation. Instead, it gives one way to spell the different varieties of English. The system uses 22 Roman letters to represent the set of English phonemes considered by J.C. Wells.<ref>J.C. Wells, ''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary'', Second edition, Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd., 2000.</ref> The letters ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘w’ and ‘x’ are not used (let(contracted; show full)ludes two pairs of stress marks which disambiguate words which share the same spelling but have different meanings. This is to get a one-to-one [[phoneme]] (sound)–[[grapheme]] (spelling) correspondence.<ref name="Skordev" /><ref>L. Ivanov & V. Yule, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512140742/http://members.multimania.co.uk/rre/RPA-Paper-2007.html Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English], Contrastive Linguistics, '''32''', 2007: 50-64. {{WebCite|url=http
s://www.webcitation.org/617xl39Eo|date =2011-08-22}}</ref> The system has certain similarities to the systems of the [[NBC]] Handbook of Pronunciation,<ref>Eugene Ehrlich & Raymond Hand Jr., ''NBC Handbook of Pronunciation'' HarperCollins Publishers, London 1984.</ref> the Carnegie Mellon version of Arpabet alphabet,<ref>[http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict ''The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary''] Carnegie Mellon University, (contracted; show full)==Other pages==
* [[Orthography]]
* [[English language]]

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