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

> 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.

And Shavian?

Suzanne