The World's Writing Systems by Peter T. Daniels
An encyclopedic survey of the world’s writing systems that describes the structure, history, typology, and sociocultural roles of scripts from diverse languages; it explains how alphabets, abugidas, syllabaries, abjads, and logographic systems function, traces their development and contact-induced change, and provides comparative analyses, examples, and illustrations. Combining technical description with cultural context, it serves as a reference for linguists, historians, typographers, and anyone interested in orthographic reform, script standardization, and the challenges of encoding scripts for modern use.
- Published
- 1996
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 968 pages
- Original Language
- English
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