To help you learn how to read and write English in the Musa alphabet, we offer a variety of learning aids. Use the one(s) you find most useful!
Here are the names for all the Musa shapes:
Here are memorable images of all the Musa letters used for English:
For those of you who are familiar with the (excellent) color vowel system, here is a chart of the vowel colors:
The color vowels are a great way to talk about the English vowel sounds when they're written in the Roman alphabet, where they don't each have their own letter. That's not a problem in Musa, but here's another aid: nicknames that help you associate vowel sounds with letter shapes. Each nickname includes the sound it represents, and hopefully also evokes the shape of the letter. Here are some hints:
Yawn depicts an open mouth.
Bobby represents the helmet of a London constable.→
Diamond and Ladle represent the unstressed vowel in the word.
Here are two simple charts of the English letters, suitable for printing.
green | silver | golden | wooden | blue |
gray | red | mustard | auburn | rose |
white | black | almond | olive | brown |
turquoise | beer | purple | gourd | fuchsia |
mocha | pear | scarlet | orange | teal |
mom | nun | banking | ||
sip | sit | sick | ||
peas appear | tease attack | tsar tsunami | cheese achieve | keys accuse |
bob spill compass | dad still mental | beats | judge denture | gig skill conquer |
above | adopt | beads | ajar | against |
fluff | thirtieth | sauce | sheepish | high |
valve | they | zoos | Asia | |
we | low | roar | you | all |
metal, medal | oar | night-owl | uh-oh |
Here are all the Musa digits. The RGB color codes are available here.
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