Re: Number of writing systems

suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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?

In chronological order: Hangul. Pitman. Visible Speech. Gregg.
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