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…
The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Thai and Cree. Full script tables are given for every language and each entry is accompanied by a detailed overview of its historical and linguistic context.
Through text and illustrations, describes more than twenty African symbol systems and alphabets used on the continent and in the Diaspora.
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…
