01 Phonetic Alphabets (Alpha Bravo etc)
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This article is from the Phonetic alphabets (Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta) FAQ, by Gwillim Law gwil@mindspring.com with numerous contributions by others.
01 Phonetic Alphabets (Alpha Bravo etc)
May 1997
There is a widely known alphabet Alpha Bravo ... Yankee Zulu.
Such alphabets are variously known as phonetic/radio/
spelling/telephone alphabets, and the term analogy alphabet
is also used. This collection currently includes alphabets
for the following languages:
English, French, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, Romansh, Danish, Norwegian,
Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian,
Croatian, Serbo-Croat, Romanian, Turkish, Hebrew,
Russian, Swahili, Kwanyama, Ndonga, Afrikaans,
Chinese and Esperanto.
This posting supersedes the one of 21 March 1997. There are
two new alphabets: one Greek and one Turkish.
I have agreed to take over maintenance of this collection
from Brian Kelk. Any comments or suggested changes may be
sent to me at <gwil@mindspring.com>.
Thanks are due to Mr. Kelk and to the many contributors,
not all of whom are acknowledged below.
In my capacity as the editor of this collection I have no
objection to the further electronic distribution of this
posting in full in circumstances where it is likely to be of
interest, and where a document of this length is acceptable;
in the case of Web pages I ask that care be taken, as it is
easy to mangle something.
There is a brief version of this collection. I don't intend
to post it to the newsgroups unless I get requests for it.
Both the full and brief versions may be found on the World
Wide Web at:
<http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/phon.menu.html>
The full version is at a number of other sites, including:
<http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/phonetic.html>
You could also try:
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/radio/phonetic-alph/>
<ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/radio/phonetic-alph/>
Editorial comments are in square brackets [].
Gwillim Law gwil@mindspring.com
1 May 1997
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