Shavian Transliterator
Convert English text into the Shavian alphabet for language study, experimentation, and typographic exploration.
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appkiro.comThe Shavian alphabet (๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ) is a phonemic writing system designed for English by Kingsley Read, commissioned by the will of George Bernard Shaw. Each letter represents exactly one sound โ no silent letters, no ambiguous spellings.
Type or paste English text below. Click individual Shavian letters to swap phonemes. Click a Latin word to cycle through markers: namer dot ยท (proper noun), acroring โธฐ (initialism), acroarc ๊คฎ (pronounceable acronym).
The transliterator converts English text into the Shavian alphabet by looking up phonemes for each word and pairing them with their corresponding Shavian letters. The output is a three-row gloss showing the original Latin word, the Shavian spelling, and the IPA pronunciation it is based on.
A small core dictionary loads instantly with the page, then a larger curated dictionary streams in the background. Each entry maps an English word to its phonemes; the tool combines those phonemes with the official Shavian phoneme map.
The tool falls back to a heuristic that guesses phonemes from English spelling. Heuristic words are flagged with a red IPA color so you can spot them and adjust individual letters from the popover.
Click a Latin word to cycle through the namer dot for proper nouns, the acroring for initialisms read letter by letter, and the acroarc for pronounceable acronyms. Click again to remove the marker.
No. The dictionaries and the rendering for Copy Shavian and Export Gloss all run in your browser, including the PNG canvas export. The font ships locally and is loaded with font-display: swap.