--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

> Considering that no orthography has ever deliberately been
> "non-phonemic," that looks like a pretty good guess.

Some of the Roman alphabet-based 'syllabaries', e.g. that of
Potawatomi, deliberately drop the phonation contrast! Or are you
denying these systems the status of 'orthographies'?

Philippine orthographies relegate glottal stops to the pronunciations
shown in dictionaries. Malay <e> (two distinct vowels) and final <k>
also spring to mind, though <k> may be an example of a language having
two co-existing spelling systems - native and loanword.

As to the Royal Thai General System of Transcription,...

Richard.