acrophonic-alphabets

A collection of 92 Alpha-Bravo-Charlie-style alphabets from around the world.

Acrophony is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter's name begins with the letter itself. For example, Greek letter names are acrophonic: the names of the letters α, β, γ, δ, are spelled with the respective letters: αλφα (alpha), βήτα (beta), γάμμα (gamma), δέλτα (delta).

Installation

npm install acrophonic-alphabets --save

Usage

This module exports an array of alphabets. Each has a name, language, year, notes, and a 26-word alphabetical list.

var alphabets = require('acrophonic-alphabets')

alphabets.length
// => 92

alphabets[0]
// =>
// { name: 'NATO',
//   language: 'English',
//   notes: 'This alphabet dates from ...',
//   year: 1955,
//   words: ['alpha', 'bravo', 'charlie', 'delta', ...]}

The Alphabets

• NATO (English)
• Telecom B (English)
• British A (English)
• Bombay Telephone Directory (English)
• Kenyan and Tanzanian Telephone Directories (English)
• Johannesburg Telephone Directory (English)
• Malayan Telephone Directory (English)
• New York City Police (English)
• Nassau County Police, Long Island, New York (English)
• San Diego Pollice, California (English)
• Hutchinson, Kansas Police (English)
• Amateur Radio (English)
• ARRL (American Radio Relay League) (English)
• Pre-1954 U.S. Navy Radio (English)
• RAF (English)
• US Navy (English)
• Western Union (English)
• British Army (English)
• RAF (English)
• Royal Navy (English)
• US Army (English)
• British (perhaps Post Office approved) (English)
• British Forces (English)
• A comme Anatole (French)
• Swiss Telephone Directory (French)
• OUP Vocabulary Book (French)
• Langenscheidt Phrase Book (French)
• Larousse Business Book (French)
• Berlitz and AA phrase books (French)
• Official German Emergency Services (German)
• Another German Alphabet (German)
• Another German Alphabet (German)
• Swiss Telephone Directory (German)
• Deutsche Bundespost (German)
• German Untitled (German)
• OUP Vocabulary Book (German)
• Collins vocabulary book (German)
• Cassel business book (German)
• BBC Business Book (Standard Phone Alphabet) (German)
• Collins Phrase Book (German)
• World War II (German)
• Morse Code Mnemonics (German)
• A van Anna (Dutch)
• Collins Phrase Book (Dutch)
• Van Dale French-Dutch dictionary (Dutch)
• Belgian (Flemish) (Dutch)
• Van Dale French-Dutch dictionary (Dutch)
• Collins and Berlitz phrase books (Spanish)
• Madrid Ministries (Spanish)
• The Telephonist's Alphabet (Business Book) (Spanish)
• Langenscheidt Phrase Book (Spanish)
• Berlitz phrase book (Latin American) (Spanish)
• AA phrase book (Latin American) (Spanish)
• Used in Argentina (Spanish)
• Morse Code Mnemonics (Spanish)
• Azores Telephone Directory (Portuguese)
• Collins Phrase Books (Portuguese)
• AA Phrase Book (Portuguese)
• Collins Dictionary (Portuguese)
• A come Ancona (Italian)
• Cassel Language Book (Italian)
• BBC language book (Italian)
• Italian Untitled (Italian)
• Collins Phrase Book (Italian)
• Langenscheidt Phrase Book (Italian)
• Swiss Telephone Directory (Romansh) (Romansh)
• Berlitz Phrase Book (Danish)
• Norwegian (Norwegian)
• Swedish (Swedish)
• Early 20th Century Swedish (Swedish)
• Berlitz Phrase Book (Finnish) (Finnish)
• Czech Ministry of Transport and Communication (Czech)
• Morse Code Mnemonics (Czech)
• Warsaw Telephone Directory (Polish)
• Polish Amateur Radio (Polish)
• Berlitz Phrase Book (Polish)
• Hungarian Telephone Directory (Hungarian)
• Croatian (Croatian)
• Serbo-Croat (Serbo-Croat)
• Slovenian (Slovenian)
• Romanian (Romanian)
• Turkish (Turkish)
• Berlitz Phrase Book (Turkish)
• Turkish Telephone Directory (Turkish)
• Berlitz Phrase Book (Hebrew)
• New Hebrew (Hebrew)
• Swahili (Swahili)
• Swahili (Newer) (Swahili)
• Kwanyama (Kwanyama)
• Ndonga (Ndonga)
• Afrikaans (Afrikaans)
• Chinese (Chinese (Romanized Mandarin))

Dependencies

None

License

MIT