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Featural writing system
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Writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the phonemes that they represent
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In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they represent. The term featural was introduced by Geoffrey Sampson to describe the Korean alphabet:โ€Š120โ€Š and Pitman shorthand.:โ€Š40โ€Š

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