My Cyrillo-Latin idea for the American English Alphabet

I'm not sure what prompted me to do this, probably just the want to play with the English language. either way, this was a fun little thing to attempt. This thing's still in its prototype stages, so I'm open to suggestions.

Upon writing down all the possible sounds in American English, I came to realize there are around 12 common vowel sounds and 27 different consonant sounds. So deciding to make a phonetic alphabet, I ended up with 37 letters and two dipthongs. But to make things easier (by using less letters), I made sure certain letters were variant forms of others.

The Alphabet so far:

A - Father

Ӓ - Law, Hawk

Æ - Mash, Camel

B* - Bat, Ball

Ḇ* - Vowel, Ventrilloquist

Г - Gate

Д - Dog, Deer

E - Elf, Red

Ё - Bud, Love

U - Ruin, Spoon

Ú - Weather

Ü - Put, Wood

З - Zoo, Zero

Ӟ - Treasure, Luge

H - Help, Himalayas

T - Talk, Tin

И - Heed, Read

Ӥ - Rift, Pill

Й - Yarn

K - Kepler

L - Looney

M - Munchies

Ƞ - Never, News

Ŋ - Thing, Surfing

O - Lord, Poor

П - Purple, Pants

Ԥ - Fall, Fantastic

Ф** - Philosophy

Р - Rope, Rift

Ш - Simple, Soup

Щ  - Shirt, Shins

Ө or Þ*** - Thistle, Thing

Ӫ or Đ*** - This, Rather

Ч - Church, Child

Ӌ - Jump, Joy

Ц - Gatsby, Pits

Ҵ - Ads, Cards

Dipthong-Vowels: AO makes the "ow" in "fowl," OU makes the "o" in "rope."

The Only Spelling Exception: Plurals end in Ш, EШ, З or EЗ. This especially applies to plural words that would otherwise end in Ц or Ҵ.

Considered letter: ь for a soft sound, like how the T is soft in "at."


*Б for B and В for V are being considered.

**I'm considering taking this out and leaving Ԥ as its equivalent.

***I am not sure whether as to choose one, the other, or even accept both.


Let me know what you think! I'm always open to suggestions. :)