Lepsius Standard Alphabet

Lepsius Standard Alphabet
First line of ǂKá̦gára in ǀXam language in W.H.I. Bleek and L. Lloyd, Specimens of Bushman folklore, 1911
Script type	alphabet
Creator	Karl Richard Lepsius
Published	1849
Time period	late 19th century
Languages	Egyptian language, languages of Africa
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphics Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Greek Latin Lepsius Standard Alphabet
Child systems	Paleotype
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The Standard Alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius. Lepsius initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs in his Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien^[1] and extended it to write African languages, published in 1853,^{[citation needed]} 1854^[2] and 1855,^[3] and in a revised edition in 1863.^[4] The alphabet was comprehensive but was not used much as it contained a lot of diacritic marks and was difficult to read and typeset at that time. It was, however, influential in later projects such as Ellis's Paleotype, and diacritics such as the acute accent for palatalization, under-dot for retroflex, underline for Arabic emphatics, and the click letters continue in modern use.