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- Adrien-Gabriel Morice - French, developed Carrier syllabary c. 1885.
- Afáka Atumisi - Surinamian, invented Afaka script in 1908.
- Alexandre de Rhodes - French missionary, developed Vietnamese alphabet c. 1624, adapting the Roman alphabet
- Alexander Melville Bell - American teacher, invented Visible Speech in 1867
- Ali Moslehi Moslehabadi - Iranian comparative linguist, developed IPA2, also known as Pársik in 2004.
- Anton Bezenšek - Slovenian linguist, developed Bezenšek Shorthand c. 1879
- Aulay Macaulay - English tea-dealer, who invented Polygraphy, a system of shorthand in 1747.
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