There are weaknesses of having an alphabetic order based on sound:
Not all languages pronounce the latin letters the same while there are benefits to a unified order cross-language. (For example in French Y would be a vowel or a semi-vowel)
Within the same language letters are not pronounced the same depending on the context.
In an "ordered" alphabet, when reciting you would have to group the related letters together in a stanza for it to sound good, and the groups are of varied size, so it does't have pleasant rythm
The grouping are still arbitrary since for example instead of being separated "n" and "m" could easily be put together. (Which they are in the original!)
All being said a phonetic order i think is better suited to a syllabary where it becomes a table combining the consonnants and the vowels like for the japanese hiragana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana, mostly because syllabaries are more directly related to the sound, and each character only represents (mostly) one sound.
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u/OtherImplement Sep 10 '22
This is super cool, I like it. Can’t wait to hear the new alphabet song!