New (easier) alphabet

After much though about the current alphabet last week (work was keeping me bored out of my mind and so I needed a distraction) I decided that we've got some extra letters in the current alphabet. Here's my list of necessary letters:

A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V Z (along with an extra 'ch')

This removes 5 characters (C, Q, W, X, Y) allowing the 'ch' extra character to still remain below the current number of 26 characters. In addition to removing the letters I came up with a new way of writing these characters. Also I took some inspiration from Japanese and created "radical" versions of the 5 vowels (A, E, I, O, U) that allow them to be combined with the consonants thereby shortcutting the process of writing consonant-vowel combinations. Another inspiration from Japanese came by combining characters with similar sounds (B-P, D-T, F-H, G-K, U-V) and differentiating between the two pronounciations by using an apostrophe. This further reduced the number of characters needed to only 17 (a savings of 9 characters over the traditional alphabet). Because the new alphabet doesn't have the letter 'W' I now use 'UE' for cases where 'WHE' would be found, 'UA' in place of 'WHA', 'UO' in place of 'WO', etc. Without the letter 'Q' I now must use 'K' and I've replaced occurrences of 'Y' with 'I'. I'm finding that writing using my new alphabet is quite fast (especially because of the consonant-vowel combinations). I think it's time for a change...