Quotecomputers... a syllabary instead of an alphabetKatakana has 16 consontants (four bits) and five vowels (three bits), which we can fit in the same space as 7-bit ASCII ...
Canadian Aboriginal is only 55 glyphs, tho some dialects want up to 25 more glyphs, for a total of 80. ...
But the A in ASCII is "American," so English phonemes. UNIFON claims it can do all English phonemes in 40 characters -- 24 consonants 16 vowels. With every syllable as "CV" that'd be 24*16 = 384 sylllables. add a null consonant and a null vowel and it's 424 syllables (25*17 - 1 for the "null null" syllable). 384 and 424 would need 9 bits, bleah.
A Δ Ʌ B Ȼ D E 𐊑 Ԙ F G H I Ŧ J K L M N И
O O̲ 𐐅 ꐎ ꐎ P R S Ꞩ T Ћ Һ U ⩌ U̲ V W Z Y Ƶ