An alphabet is a standardized set of signs to display parts of a spoken language - it may be pictographic and display a whole picture as a symbol for a specific thing, it may be phonographic and display one sign for a syllable or ideally just one sign for a single phoneme. (A phoneme is the smallest posited structural unit that distinguishes meaning in a language.)

One language in which one phoneme is represented by one sign is the georgian Alphabet, which therefore would be an ideal choice for the University of Babel.

Letters

ა /ɑ/

ბ /b/

გ /ɡ/

დ /d/

ე /ɛ/

ვ /v/

ზ /z/

თ /tʰ/

ი /i/

კ /kʼ/

ლ /l/

მ /m/

ნ /n/

ო /ɔ/

პ /pʼ/

ჟ /ʒ/

რ /r/

ს /s/

ტ /tʼ/

უ /u/

ფ /pʰ/

ქ /kʰ/

ღ /ɣ/

ყ /qʼ/

შ /ʃ/

ჩ /tʃ/

ც /ts/

ძ /dz/

წ /tsʼ/

ჭ /tʃʼ/

ხ /x/

ჯ /dʒ/

ჰ /h/

This would be an example for a written text in the georgian alphabet: Example of a written Text in Georgian

changed July 8, 2008