Alexander John Ellis

Alexander John Ellis FRS (14 Yuni 1814 - 28 Oktoba 1890) masanin lissafi ne na Ingilishi, masanin ilimin harshe kuma masanin ilimin sauti na farko wanda kuma ya rinjayi fagen ilimin kiɗa. Ya canza sunansa daga sunan mahaifinsa, Sharpe, zuwa sunan mahaifiyarsa, Ellis, a cikin 1825 a matsayin yanayin samun tallafin kuɗi mai mahimmanci daga dangi a gefen mahaifiyarsa. An binne shi a Kabari na Kensal Green, London .

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haife shi Alexander John Sharpe a Hoxton, Middlesex, ga dangin masu arziki. Mahaifinsa, James Birch Sharpe, sanannen mai zane ne kuma likita wanda daga baya aka nada shi Esquire na Windlesham . Mahaifiyarsa, Ann Ellis, ta fito ne daga matsayi mai daraja, amma ba a san yadda iyalinta suka yi arziki ba. Ɗan'uwan Alexander James Birch Sharpe ƙarami ya mutu a Yaƙin Inkerman a lokacin Yaƙin Crimea . Wani ɗan'uwansa, William Henry Sharpe, ya yi aiki tare da Lancashire Fusiliers bayan ya koma arewa tare da iyalinsa zuwa Cumberland, saboda aikin soja.

Alexander ya yi karatu a Makarantar Shrewsbury, Kwalejin Eton da Kwalejin Trinity, Cambridge (BA 1837). Da farko an horar da shi a cikin lissafi da na gargajiya, ya zama sanannen masanin sauti na lokacinsa kuma ya rubuta labarin kan phonetics don Encyclopaedia Britannica a 1887. Ta hanyar aikinsa a cikin phonetics, ya kuma zama mai sha'awar murya kuma, ta hanyar fadadawa, a cikin kiɗa, da magana da waƙa.

 Harshen haruffa 
Ellis ya kirkiro haruffa guda biyu, haruffa na Turanci (tare da Isaac Pitman),  wanda ya yi amfani da sabbin haruffa da yawa, da haruffa Palaeotype, wanda ya maye gurbin yawancin waɗannan da haruffi masu juyawa (kamar su, su), ƙananan kawuna (kamar haka), da italics. Wadannan haruffa, da kuma biyu daga cikin abubuwan da ya kirkira, an ba da su ga haruffa na Romic na Henry Sweet kuma daga can zuwa Haruffa na Duniya.

 Manazarta 

 1845, Harshen Halitta
 1848, Rubuce-rubuce don Magana: ko, Bukatar Gyaran Orthographic
 1869, A kan Farkon Turanci Pronunciation, London: N. Trübner / sake bugawa ta Greenwood Press: New York (1968).
 1885, "A kan Scale na Musical na Al'ummai daban-daban""A kan Scales na Musical na Al'ummai daban-daban"
 1889, A farkon furcin Ingilishi: tare da ambaton Shakspere da Chaucer na musamman, wanda ke dauke da bincike game da takaddar rubutu tare da magana a Ingila daga zamanin Anglosaxon zuwa yau ...A farkon furcin Ingilishi: tare da ambaton Shakspere da Chaucer, wanda ke dauke da bincike game da takaddar rubutu tare da magana a Ingila daga zamanin Anglosaxon zuwa yau ... 
 1890, Harsunan Ingilishi - Sauti da Gidajensu