Re: Number of writing systems

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...> wrote:

>
> Except that Spanish only uses the tilde on ñ in which
> case it denotes palatalizatio. Portuguese does indeed
> use the tilde for nasalization however. I'm sure
> everybody on this list knows this even if the writer
> on pandora.cii.wwu.edu does not.

Egg on my face. I didn't notice that. However, isn't a writing system
featural only if the basic set of units are featural. I can't think of
any that actually are. But we don't want to call Japanese featural, do
we?

Suzanne