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A featural alphabet is an alphabet wherein the shapes of the letters are not arbitrary, but encode phonological features of the phonemes they represent. Examples include the following: ABCs redirects here, for the Alien Big Cats, see British big cats. ... In linguistics, distinctive features are the elements which distinguish one phoneme or allophone from one another. ...

Gregg Shorthand
Hangul — Korean
Shavian alphabet
Tengwar (a fictional script invented by J. R. R. Tolkien)
Visible Speech (a phonetic script)
SignWriting (a script for writing the world's sign languages)
SpeechWriting (Mundbildschrift: a script for writing mouth movements of voiced words)

Category: Alphabetic writing systems Gregg Shorthand is a form of shorthand that was invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888. ... Jamo redirects here. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English) Tengwar is an artificial script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... Tolkien redirects here. ... Visible speech is the name of the system used by Alexander Melville Bell, who was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. ... A sign for photo model using SignWriting in the dictionary of the Flemish Sign Language Sign Writing is a system of writing the movements and handshapes of sign languages. ...

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