Talk:Featural writing system

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Is this also true for Devanagari? See also Pali (grammarian).--Dpr (talk) 14:49, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Which Featural Scripts are In Wide Use?

I took a look at the list, and it appears that Korean Hangul is pretty much the only featural script in common use. Most of the other ones are unused or recent inventions used by small groups. LCS (talk) 02:35, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics also seem commonly used. But considering it's featuralness is limited only to vowels (marking front-back/low-high vowels through symmetry and marking vowel length using a diacritic), it's not featural to the same extent as Hangul or Visible Speech are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.152.71.77 (talk) 08:18, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Semi-featural systems

Are the following really examples of featural elements?

The Turkish alphabet uses the presence of one or two dots above a vowel to indicate that it is a front vowel.

• what is it about overdots that resembles frontness? if anything this would resemble height.

The Japanese kana syllabaries indicate voiced consonants with marks known as dakuten.

• nothing about their shape suggests voicing to me

The Fraser alphabet used for Lisu rotates the letters for the tenuis consonants ꓑ /p/, ꓔ /t/, ꓝ /ts/, ꓚ /tʃ/, and ꓗ /k/ 180° to indicate aspiration.

• again, nothing about rotation that resembles aspiration in a featural way

Also, this article needs more citations generally. ^{[citation unneeded]} (talk) 12:29, 19 November 2025 (UTC)