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Basic Roman
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'''(contracted; show full)| {{IPA|j}} || <center>y</center> || '''y'''es
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| {{IPA|w}} || <center>u ( w )</center> || '''w'''est
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| {{IPA|l}} || <center>l</center> || '''l'''ike
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By way of illustration, the following reference text by V. Yule<ref name="Spelling without surplus letters">V. Yule, [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/ssurplu.htm Spelling without surplus letters]
 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830034334/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/ssurplu.htm |date=2007-08-30 }}</ref> is given in traditional spelling and in Basic Roman (shown is the non-[[rhotic]] version; in the [[rhotic]] one, relevant words like ‘daughter’, ‘heart’, ‘pictures’ etc. are spelled ‘dootar’, ‘haart’, ‘pikcharz’ etc.):

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A more elaborate version of the system is the '''Extended Basic Roman''' spelling of English, which uses also the letters ‘j’ and ‘w’, and has two specific two-letter combinations for the English voiced and voiceless dental fricatives.<ref name="lycos">L. Ivanov, V. Yule, [http://members.lycos.co.uk/rre/RPA-Paper-2007.html Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English]
 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930200603/http://members.lycos.co.uk/rre/RPA-Paper-2007.html |date=2007-09-30 }}, Contrastive Linguistics, XXXII, 2007, 2, pp. 50-64.</ref> The above sample text would appear in Extended Basic Roman (non-rhotic version) as follows:

(contracted; show full)ation,<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, Version 0.6</ref> and the World Book Dictionary.<ref>[http://www.worldbook.com/wb/dict ''The World Book Dictionary'']
 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109230526/http://www.worldbook.com/wb/dict |date=2006-11-09 }}, World Book Inc., Chicago, 2002</ref>

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==Other websites==
*G. Gerych. [https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/22477/1/EC56137.PDF Transliteration of Cyrillic Alphabets.] Ottawa University, April 1965. 126&nbsp;pp.


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