Re: Optimum number of symbols

And Rosta wrote:
>A similar argument could be made for languages with very
>large consonant inventories that arrange themselves into
>orderly grids of phonation/initiation + place + manner +
>secondary articulation (e.g. palatalization). That is, a
>writing scheme that to some extent decomposes individual
>segments might be both more manageable and more faithful to
>the phonological of the language.
You needn't have a large consonant inventory for that. Surely any language
where, say, palatalization places a large part in phonology would be well
served by a writing system that takes a featural approach to that
phenomenon?

                                              Andreas

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