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Adam F. stated, 'I don't know what abjads, abugidas, and featural systems are, ...'<BR> <BR>so I'm inserting and attaching a list of definitions that I had compiled a few years ago when studying writing systems. (A version is attached in case some of the characters do not print correctly in your e-mail program. Of course, this won't guarantee that they'll show correctly in your computer's word processor, either!)<BR> <BR>The list is not necessarly complete as far as possible terms relating to writing are concerned, but it provides a good foundation for clarifying meanings in our discussions. <BR> <BR>
Hope this helps!<BR>
<BR>Kathy<BR><SPAN class=dReadMsgHeaderSender id=PresenceContainer><B></B></SPAN> <BR> <BR><BR>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">Definitions of Some Terms from <U>The<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>World’s Writing Systems<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></U></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1996.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oxford University Press.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">abecedary<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a text listing the characters of an abjad or alphabet in their traditional or standard order (even if that order does not begin with the equivalent of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">a</I> and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">b</I>)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">abjad<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a type of writing system that denotes only consonants</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">abugida<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a type of writing system whose basic characters denote consonants followed by a particular vowel, and in which diacritics denote the other vowels</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">allograph<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>conditioned or free variant of a character, e.g., the distinctive forms of five Hebrew letters used at the end of a word (conditioned), the differing forms of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">a/</I><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: IPAKielSeven">a</SPAN></I>, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">g/</I><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: IPAKielSeven">g</SPAN></I> that can be intermixed in handwriting (free)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">alphabet<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a type of writing system that denotes consonants and vowels</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">alphasyllabary<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">character<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>1.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>general term for any self-contained element of a writing system;</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>2.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>conventional term for a unit of the Chinese writing system in East Asian scripts </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">consonant<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a brief portion of an utterance in which obstruction to the air stream is created in the vocal tract; also, a character designating such a sound</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">cursive<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>flowing, showing the influence of the motion of the hand in writing, often with joined characters</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">diacritic<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a mark added to a character to indicate a modified pronunciation (or sometimes to distinguish homophonous words)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">digraph<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">a pair of letters denoting a single sound, e.g. <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">ph</I>, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">sh</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">ductus<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>an individual style of handwriting, characteristic of a small group of scribes or sometimes a single person</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">featural script<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a type of writing system whose characters denote phonetic features</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">grammatogeny<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>the invention of a writing system</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">grapheme<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>term intended to designate a unit of a writing system, parallel to phoneme and morpheme, but in practice used as a synonym for letter, diacritic, character (2) or sign (2)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">iconic<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>of a sign, bearing some nonconventional, visual relationship to what is referred to</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">letter<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a self-contained unit of an abjad, alphabet, or abugida</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">ligature<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">a composite character in which the components are recognizable, e.g.<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </I><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: IPAKielSeven">Ï, {</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: IPAKielSeven"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">logogram<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a character that denotes the meaning but not the pronunciation of a morpheme</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">logosyllabary<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">morphophonemic<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>of orthography, spellings that remain constant when a morpheme undergoes changes in pronunciation (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">photograph, photography, photographic</I>)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">orthography<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>conventional spelling of texts, and the principles therefor</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">script<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">in this book, equivalent to <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">writing system<o:p></o:p></I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">sign<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>1.</FONT><SPAN Roman?? New Times> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#000000 size=3>a unit in a communicative system comprising a signifier (what carries the </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>meaning) and a signified (what is meant); </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>2.</FONT><SPAN Roman?? New Times> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#000000 size=3>conventional term for a self-contained unit of cuneiform script</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">signary<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>general term for a determined collection of characters (or signs), used to avoid specifying abjad, alphabet, etc.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">writing system<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>a signary together with an associated orthography</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">SOME TYPES OF WRITING SYSTEMS<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></H2>
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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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></B></P>
<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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<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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