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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Here are some types of writing systems, from </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Daniels, Peter T. and William Bright. 1996. <U>The World's Writing Systems</U>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">abjad:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>A type of writing system that denotes only consonants</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">abugida:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>A type of writing system whose basic characters denote consonants followed by a particular vowel, and in which diacritics denote the other vowels</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">alphabet:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>A type of writing system that denotes consonants and vowels</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">alphasyllabary:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>A writing system in which vowels are denoted by subsidiary symbols not all of which occur in a linear order (with relation to the consonant symbols) that is congruent with their temporal order in speech</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">featural script:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>A type of writing system whose characters denote phonetic features</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">logosyllabary:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>A type of writing system whose characters denote morphemes, and a subset of whose characters can be used for their phonetic syllabic values without regard to their semantic values</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Hope this helps.</FONT></o:p></P>
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