suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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?

Yeah. But no one's ever actually used it for anything but the edition of
Androcles. (Which is a pretty rare and valuable volume now -- I suspect
that if I'd ever seen it on the shelf back in 1963 I'd have bought me a
copy with my $1 a week.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...