acrophonic-alphabets/README.md

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

# 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

```sh
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.

```js
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