Writing Systems of the World 1, Exercise 1: classifying scripts Greek alphabet Hebrew abjad Japanese kana syllabary Devanagari abugida Chinese characters logographic Hangul featural The disputed one is the featural class. The Writing system article says the class was proposed by Geoffrey Sampson, with Hangul as the main example, and that many scholars, including John DeFrancis, dispute the classification. Remember the article's caveat that most systems are mixed, so these labels name the main tendency of each script. (Japanese, for example, also uses Chinese characters; Chapter 4 returns to this.)