Hamiltonian description of a system I know that phase space is the Hamiltonian description of a system, where we deal with position and momentum in equal footing. My question is in this phase space are those position and momentum are basis for that system?
As far as I know they are independent, in Hamiltonian dynamics, but how can I say that they are orthogonal basis functions? As alwayas we draw position and momentum line perpendicularly!
 A: If the question is if the Hamiltonian phase space has the structure of a vector space equipped with a scalar product, the answer is negative, in general. 
It is true that  generalized coordinates and momenta of a system with $n$  spatial degrees of freedom are locally represented by $2 n$ real numbers and $\mathbb R^{2 n}$ can be seen as a $2 n$ dimensional vector space. But the impossibility, in general, of a global mapping of the phase space on $\mathbb R^{2 n}$  prevents the possibility of identifying coordinates and momenta as a vector.
As a simple example, which shows why  there is such limitation, is the phase space of a rigid body in 3D. Coordinates represent three independent angles. However the set of rotation is not a vector space because in general $3D$ finite rotations around different axes do not commute.
It turns  out that the most natural structure of the Hamiltonian phase space is that of a symplectic differentiable manifold. Which implies that, besides the failure of a general identification with a vector space, even at local level, the most important  property of Hamiltonian coordinates is not related to the concept of angle and scalar product, but to the concept of local volume.
A: I'm afraid you're making a soup of concepts which have nothing to do
with one another. My suspicion derives e.g. from your use of words
like "orthogonal" and "basis", which I would see better in context
about QM.
As to drawing "position and momentum line perpendicularly" you're
attributing weight to an innocent practice: if I have a 2D space, it's
usual to draw a map of its coordinates in a Cartesian plane. But you
shouldn't give the drawing more properties than it's meant to have,
e.g. a euclidean structure (orthogonality).
What has instead a meaning in that plane is the area enclosed by a
closed curve (the integral $\oint\!p\,dq$). Maybe you don't think of an
area without a euclidean structure, but this is actually possible.
And that area is interesting because it's invariant under canonical
transformations. I assume you'll see that going on with Hamiltonian
mechanics.
