The Routeldge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets
George L. Campbell
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (188 p.)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Note on phonetic symbols; Introduction: the world's families of scripts; Ancient writing systems; Aegean scripts; Anatolian scripts; Aramaic; Syriac; Brāhmī; Coptic; Egyptian; Epigraphic South Arabian; Etruscan see under Roman (Latin)Gothic; Javanese (Kawi); Maya; Ogham; Persian Cuneiform; Runic; Turkic Runes; Contemporary writing systems; Arabic; Armenian; Batak; Bengali; Berber (Tifinagh); Buginese-Macassarese; Burmese; Cambodian; Cherokee; Chinese. - Archaic ChineseClassical Chinese (Wenli); Modern Chinese; Cree; Cyrillic; Devanāgarī; Ethiopic; Georgian; Greek; Gujarati; Gurmukhi; Hebrew; Yiddish; Japanese; Kannada; Korean; Lao; Malayalam; Mongolian; Oriya; Roman (Latin); Sinhalese; Tamil; Telugu; Thai; Tibetan; Yi; Autochthonous writing systems; Fraser script (Lisu); Munda language scripts; N'ko; Pahawh Hmong; Pollard script; Rongorongo; Vai; Further reading; Index. - The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. 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. New to this second edition:enhanced introduction discussing the basic principles and strategies utilized by world writing systems expanded to
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| ISBN | 0-203-86548-0. - 1-135-22294-0. - 1-135-22296-7. - 1-135-22297-5. - 1-283-59121-9. - 9786613903662
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