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Practical Cosmophonography, written by Francis Fauvel-Gouraud in 1849, is a book that proposes a new system of writing and printing all the principal languages of the world. The author claims that his system, called Universal Phonetic Alphabet, is capable of accurately representing... Read Full Overview

Practical Cosmophonography, written by Francis Fauvel-Gouraud and published in 1849, is a guide to a system of writing and printing all the major languages of the world. The book introduces an original universal phonetic alphabet that can be used to accurately represent the pronunciation... Read Full Overview

Practical Cosmophonography is a book written by Francis Fauvel-Gouraud in 1849. The book presents a system of writing and printing all the principal languages of the world, along with their exact pronunciation, by using an original universal phonetic alphabet. The author proposes... Read Full Overview