"Depuis le XXe siècle, des dizaines de systèmes d'écriture autochtones ont été inventés en Afrique pour diverses langues. Mais ils sont le plus souvent oubliés après la disparition de leurs fondateurs. Le N'ko, système de transcription phonétique et phonologique des langues mand…
From the Publisher: Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scri…
From the Publisher: Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scri…
"This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts, and orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present. It provides both a fully illustrated description of over 400 writing systems and an account of the study of writing in many different disciplines, from a…
This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts, and orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present. It provides both a fully illustrated description of over 400 writing systems and an account of the study of writing in many different disciplines, from an…
Cultural history on a grand scale, this immensely readable book is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. Traversing four millennia, Martin shows how the written word originated, how it spread, and how it figured in the ev…
Gives the general reader insight into the major writing systems of the world, both as modes of expression and as factors in contemporary social change. Challenges the linguist (and the social scientist) not to take writing for granted, but to be aware of the ways in which it con…
