(Sonorants: unrestricted airflow, representing free, independent concepts, pronounced as in European languages & Old English)

 

a  a     SPACE:  (as in open, short ‘Mama’, the round Space we first inhabit); an open Space; Space is all around us

 

A  A  TIME:  (long as in ‘FAther Time’, as it lasts long); Time is measured in elliptical orbits of moon and sun: month and year; an elongation of Space

 

e e  MOVEMENT:  (short as in ‘jet propelled’; a front-tongue vowel, as we should Move forward); a spiral nebula’s primal cosmic Motion

 

E  E  MATTER:  (long as in Eh? without the dipthong, as Matter lasts longer than Movement); a brick stone of Matter

 

i i  LIGHT:  (short as in ‘lit’; the quickest & brightest vowel, with highest frequency, 3000 cycles/second at its upper formant; high front-tongue vowel: we see Light in front and high in the sky; Light travels quickest); a source of Light with rays spreading out

 

I  I  SOUND:  (long as in ‘shrIeking polIce’ siren, as Sound travels more slowly than Light); a sinusoidal Sound wave

 

u  u  HUMAN:  (as in ‘pushy Humans’); the two-armed or two-legged Human, also depicting the dual Human nature

 

U  U  MIND, SPIRIT:  (as in ‘trUe’ Spirit; a high back-tongue vowel: Spirit soars high, but holds its mystery long); a triangle representing the many possible trinities of spiritual traditions and philosophies

 

o  o  (short as in the second syllable of  ‘zo-ol-ogy’); a leaf is the site of photosynthesis, the basis of Life on this planet; chlorophyll is similar in molecular structure to hemoglobin of blood

 

O  O  (as in ‘Oh’ without the dipthong; we touch our heart and say ‘Oh’ when we Feel deeply; rounded back-tongue vowel: we tend to hold our Feelings back); heart rate and blood pressure reveal the state of our Feelings

 

Q  Q  (Ö,Ø) CONDITION:  (as in ‘wO[r]d’ with the lips kept tightly rounded); ‘Ifs’ hem us in as between parentheses

 

Y  Y  NEGATION, OPPOSITE:  (preceding a consonant, Negation is a vowel, sounding as in trulY with the lips kept tightly rounded; preceding a vowel, Negation is a consonant, sounding as in ‘you’, so it negates even in sound whatever follows it); a minus sign or bar negating or opposing whatever stands underneath

 

Semi-vowels:

 

w  w  POWER:  (as in ‘work-power’); potential energy lying down, which could rise into a bolt of Action

 

L  L  ROUNDED:  (as in ‘Lollipop’, rounding the tongue into a spoon; L is a sonant like ‘r’ (Good) since round shapes symbolize perfection); a Round around a Round, circle within a circle; also alludes to the Rounded egg and other curvaceous feminine shapes, as well as the potential of carrying new life within a body

 

r  r  POSITIVE, GOOD:  (rolled r, as a cat purrs; can be rolled inside to symbolize inner, essential goodness, or more centrally, medially, in the tongue position of ‘d’, Means, to show medial goods, useful for something else); a plus-sign; a cross transmitting Goodness downward from above and spreading in either direction

 

Unvoiced Fricatives:
(representing some kind of latent friction in their concepts)

 

f  f  THIS:  (‘f’ hisses lip-friction, we point our lips forward at This or point with ‘finger’ at This; Fox Native Americans pointed with lips); an abbreviated arrow pointing down at This

 

s  s  THING, CONCRETE ending:  (as in ‘sack’; we hiss at Things that soil the pure Spirit, who objects to objects); round, closed in itself so it might be enclosed in a sack; it also can make a theoretical concept into a concrete entity

 

c  c  EXISTENCE, BEING: (sh, as in ‘precious special Existence’; close to its voiced equivalent ‘j’, Equal: Exist = stay Equal = remain identical to self); upright line – when you stand up you ex-ist = to stand out (Latin sistere)

 

x  x  RELATION:  (rasping snore sound of Mexico, Greek X, German & Scotch ‘Loch’; “If you snore with someone, you may have a Relation.” Guttural friction sound: Relation means inner friction); a double abbreviated arrow from you to me and from me to you

 

h  h  QUESTION:  (as in ‘how?’, gasping a Question; inside us our very breath asks: a guttural spirant – aspiration – quest); a simplified Question mark

 

Voiced Fricatives: (representing more apparent friction in their concepts)

 

v  v  ACTION, MAKE, DO, VERB ending:  (as in ‘vim’, a labial, vigorously vibrating the lips in front, since we act forward and outward); a bolt of lightning, the most active in nature, synthesizing nitrogen + oxygen to…protoplasm; Thor and Jupiter acted by throwing thunderbolts

 

z  z  PART:  (as in ‘buzz-saw’; a dental sound: teeth bite a-part); a half-moon or round cheese cut a-Part

 

j  j  EQUALITY:  (as in ‘equation’, ‘measure’; the sound of flowing water); an Equal sign connected so it can be drawn in one line; water stands horizontal, even, equal in height if not disturbed

 

Nasals:

 

m  m  QUALITY, MODIFIER ending:  (as in ‘mmm, that’s good’; a nasal sound, Quality was first smelled with the nose); a bowl, rounded and feminine, since women often intuit Quality (whereas men often measure Quantity, which is its angular version); an open vessel is also an ancient way of symbolizing the feminine

 

n  n  QUANTITY, MUCH, MANY:  (as in ‘number’); a measuring container

 

Unvoiced Stops: (topo-vectors that show position)

 

p  p  BEFORE:  (as in ‘pre-, pro-, proto-‘; blown in Front of the mouth, from the lips); a dot in Front of a line

 

t  t  TOWARD:  (as in ‘tongue tip tucking To-ward a thing); an abbreviated arrow or hook pulling Toward

 

k  k  ABOVE:  (as in ‘king has a krown on his Kopf’; articulated on the upper palate of the mouth); a dot Above a line

 

Voiced Stops:

 

b  b  TOGETHER:  (as in ‘both bonded’ Together; lips are pressed Together); two dots joined Together by an arc

 

d  d  THROUGH, MEANS, TOOL:  (as in ‘diagnose’ – when Doc sticks his nose Through the patient’s belly to Though-know him); a line crossing diagonally Through another, similar in image to liquid being sucked Through – by Means of – a straw, it becomes a Tool

 

g  g  INSIDE:  (as in ‘guttural’ Inside throat, ‘inner guts’); a dot or Thing Inside a circle