Featural alphabet
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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:
- Gregg Shorthand
- Hangul — Korean
- Shavian alphabet
- Tengwar (a fictional script invented by J. R. R. Tolkien)
- Visible Speech (a phonetic script)