Re: Abugidas (was: Chinese writing systems)

Tim May wrote:
> Besides, your pointing out that there are elements that describe
> features below the level of the phoneme would by the same logic
> indicate that at least some of the characters aren't alphabetic
> either, but rather collections of featural signs.
Indeed, it's often referred to as a "featural code", which I consider to
be a distinct type of writing system, one level of abstraction past
alphabet.  :-)

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