The Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas
A comprehensive reference that surveys writing systems from around the world, describing individual scripts and families, typological categories (alphabetic, syllabic, logographic), historical development, and structural features. It also addresses sociocultural and cognitive aspects of literacy and script use, issues of orthography, standardization and reform, and the impact of technological and encoding developments, offering comparative analyses and further bibliographic guidance for researchers and students.
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