• featural was introduced by Geoffrey Sampson to describe the Korean alphabet: 120  and Pitman shorthand.: 40  Joe Martin introduced the term featural notation...
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  • characterization of hangul as a featural system—with arguments including that Korean writers do not themselves think in these terms when writing—or question the viability...
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    rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according...
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    and the featural elements tend to pass unnoticed.[citation needed] Another featural script is SignWriting, the most popular writing system for many sign...
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    The writing systems of Africa refer to the current and historical practice of writing systems on the African continent, both indigenous and those introduced...
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    undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. The term "writing systems" is used...
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  • Areal feature Distinctive feature Featural writing system Markedness Semantic feature Kibort, Anna & Corbett, Greville G. Grammatical Features - Feature Inventory...
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    can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken...
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    Quikscript (category Writing systems introduced in 1966)
    an article introducing Quikscript under the name Second Shaw. Featural writing system Pronunciation respelling Language planning § Graphization "QuikScript...
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    Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts. The oldest and native...
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    of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures...
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    The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism. It has been awarded since...
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    century King Sejong the Great personally developed an alphabetic featural writing system known today as Hangul. He felt that Hanja was inadequate to write...
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  • segmental), abugida, abjad and featural; however, all features of any of these may be found in any given writing system in varying proportions, often making...
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    considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system used to represent all dialects. Ojibwe dialects have been written in...
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  • may form part of a writing system otherwise based on other principles, like the examples above in the phonetic English writing system—while also potentially...
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  • end of syllables), are also found in syllabaries.[citation needed] A writing system using a syllabary is complete when it covers all syllables in the corresponding...
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    Hangul (category Korean writing system)
    Hangul a featural writing system. It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems. Hangul...
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    Gadabuursi Somali Script (category Writing system stubs)
    the Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Somali language. A quite accurate phonetic writing system, it was principally used by Sheikh Nuur, his circle of associates in...
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    innovation in enabling the writing system to adequately encode human language. Logographic systems include the earliest writing systems; the first historical...
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    as a traditional writing system, asemic writing seeks to make the reader hover in a state between reading and looking. Asemic writing has no verbal sense...
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  • Massachusett writing systems describes the historic and modern systems used for writing Massachusett, an indigenous Algonquian language of the Algic language...
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    Kaddare alphabet (category Writing system stubs)
    Sufi Sheikh, named Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare. A phonetically robust writing system, the technical commissions that appraised the Kaddare alphabet concurred...
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  • who are purported by traditions to have invented alphabets or other writing systems, whether this is proven or not. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - German...
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  • SignWriting symbols. Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in...
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  • the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems were multi-directional...
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    Mixtec writing originated as a logographic writing system during the Post-Classic period in Mesoamerican history. Records of genealogy, historic events...
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    Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early...
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    primary writing system and less than five percent of the Vietnamese population used it, primarily as a learning aid for chữ Hán and writing folk literature...
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  • Zhou's observatory in China in 723. Featural writing system Hangul is the world's first featural writing system, wherein the shapes of the letters are...
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