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  1. Featural writing system. In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they represent. The term featural was introduced by Geoffrey Sampson to describe the Korean alphabet [1] : 120 and Pitman shorthand. [1] : 40.

  2. Featural linear alphabets A featural script has elements that indicate the components of articulation, such as bilabial consonants , fricatives , or back vowels . Scripts differ in how many features they indicate.

    Name Of Script
    Type
    Population Actively Using (in Millions)
    Languages Associated With
    4900+ [2] [note 2]
    Latin [note 3] and Romance languages ...
    1541 [3]
    Sinitic languages ( Mandarin, Min, Wu, ...
    Arabic العربية
    Abjad or Abugida (when diacritics are ...
    828 [3]
    Arabic (a Semitic language) Several ...
    480.5
    Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Bhojpuri
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  4. The English Featural Alphabet was invented by Tham Tan as an alternative way of writing English. The aim was to create an alphabet in which the connections between the sounds are shown in the letter shapes. It an original alphabet consisting of vertical lines and horizontal lines. Notable features. Type of writing system: alphabet

  5. Finally, a writing system such as Hangul, based upon the articulatory features that underlie the phoneme (such as voicing and place of articulation), is called a featural writing system. These relations may be depicted as follows:

  6. Featural writing system | linguistics | Britannica. Contents. featural writing system. linguistics. Learn about this topic in these articles: major reference. In writing: Types of writing systems. Featural writing systems exploit the fact that even phonemes are not the most fundamental units of analysis of speech.

  7. Introduction. Writing refers to two activities: writing as a noun, the thing that is written; and writing as the verb, which designates the activity of writing. It refers to the inscription of characters on a medium, thereby forming words, and larger units of language, known as texts.

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