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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 .
- List of writing systems
Featural linear alphabets. A featural script has elements...
- List of writing systems
A featural script represents finer detail than an alphabet. Here symbols do not represent whole phonemes, but rather the elements (features) that make up the phonemes, such as voicing or its place of articulation.
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.
The achievement of the alphabet is to analyze the syllable into its underlying consonant and vowel constituents. The economy of representation comes from the fact that a large number of syllables can be generated from a small set of these constituents.
A true alphabet is a writing system with symbols that mean both consonants and vowels. Examples of alphabetic writing systems are the Latin alphabet, (used in large parts of the world), the Greek alphabet (used in Greek ), and the Cyrillic alphabet (used in many countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia , where Russia had a major ...
Featural writing systems exploit the fact that even phonemes are not the most fundamental units of analysis of speech. Rather, phonemes may be analyzed into sets of distinctive features. The phonemes represented by the letters n and d share the feature of the tongue touching…
