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• Title:The world's writing systems / edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Daniels, Peter T.
  Bright, William, 1928-2006.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY reference (non-circulating) (Floor 2)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P211 .W714 1996
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Writing.
  Alphabet.
  Graphemics.
  
• Description:xlv, 920 p.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195079930
  
• Contents:Study of Writing Systems / Peter T. Daniels
  First Civilizations / Peter T. Daniels
  Mesopotamian Cuneiform
  Origin / Piotr Michalowski
  Sumerian and Akkadian / Jerrold S. Cooper
  Basic cuneiform syllabary
  Other languages / Gene B. Gragg
  Egyptian Writing / Robert K. Ritner
  Meroitic Script / N. B. Miller
  Epigraphic Semitic Scripts / M. O'Connor
  Salient features of various groups of texts
  Iberian Scripts / Pierre Swiggers
  Berber Scripts / M. O'Connor
  Anatolian Hieroglyphs / H. Craig Melchert
  Aegean Scripts / Emmett L. Bennett
  Old Persian Cuneiform / David D. Testen
  Methods of Decipherment / Peter T. Daniels
  Proto-Elamite Script / Robert K. Englund
  Indus Script / Asko Parpola
  Maya and Other Mesoamerican Scripts / Martha J. Macri
  Rongorongo of Easter Island / Martha J. Macri
  Early Chinese Writing / William G. Boltz
  Modern Chinese Writing / Victor H. Mair
  Japanese Writing / Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith
  Korean Writing / Ross King
  Siniform Scripts of Inner Asia
  Tangut / E. I. Kychanov
  Kitan and Jurchin / Gyorgy Kara
  Yi Script / Dingxu Shi
  Classic Yi
  Modern Yi
  Asian Calligraphy / John Stevens
  Transmission of the Phoenician Script to the West / Pierre Swiggers
  Greek Alphabet / Leslie Threatte
  Anatolian Alphabets / Pierre Swiggers and Wolfgang Jenniges
  Coptic Alphabet / Robert K. Ritner
  Gothic Alphabet / Ernst Ebbinghaus
  Scripts of Italy / Larissa Bonfante
  Roman Alphabet / Stan Knight
  Runic Script / Ralph W. V. Elliott
  Ogham / Damian McManus
  Slavic Alphabets / Paul Cubberley
  Armenian Alphabet / Avedis K. Sanjian
  Georgian Alphabet / Dee Ann Holisky
  Brahmi and Kharoshthi / Richard G. Salomon
  Devanagari Script / William Bright
  Gujarati Writing / P. J. Mistry
  Gurmukhi Script / Harjeet Singh Gill
  Bengali Writing / Tista Bagchi
  Oriya Writing / B. P. Mahapatra
  Sinhala Writing / James W. Gair
  Kannada and Telugu Writing / William Bright
  Malayalam Writing / K. P. Mohanan
  Tamil Writing / Sanford B. Steever
  Tibetan Script and Derivatives / Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
  Spread of Brahmi Script into Southeast Asia / Christopher Court
  Burmese Writing / Julian K. Wheatley
  Thai and Lao Writing / Anthony Diller
  Khmer Writing / Eric Schiller
  Insular Southeast Asian Scripts / Joel C. Kuipers and Ray McDermott
  Jewish Scripts / Richard L. Goerwitz
  Aramaic Scripts for Aramaic Languages / Peter T. Daniels
  Modern Aramaic / Robert D. Hoberman
  Mandaic / Peter T. Daniels
  Aramaic Scripts for Iranian Languages / P. Oktor Skjaervo
  Aramaic Scripts for Altaic Languages / Gyorgy Kara
  Arabic Writing / Thomas Bauer
  Dhivehi Writing / James W. Gair and Bruce D. Cain
  Ethiopic Writing / Getatchew Haile
  Invention of Writing / Peter T. Daniels
  Cherokee Writing / Janine Scancarelli
  Scripts of West Africa / John Victor Singler
  Cree Syllabary / John D. Nichols
  Scripts for Munda Languages / Norman Zide
  Pahawh Hmong Script / Martha Ratliff
  Functional Classification / John Mountford
  Adaptations of the Roman Alphabet
  Romance languages / Edward Tuttle
  Germanic languages / Wayne M. Senner
  Celtic languages / Damian McManus
  Welsh / Eric P. Hamp
  Languages of Eastern and Southern Europe / Bernard Comrie
  African languages / John Bendor-Samuel
  Vietnamese / Nguyen Dinh-Hoa
  Adaptations of the Cyrillic Alphabet / Bernard Comrie
  Adaptations of Hebrew Script / Benjamin Hary
  Yiddish / Howard I. Aronson
  Adaptations of Arabic Script / Alan S. Kaye
  Germany: Script and Politics / Gerhard Augst
  Serbo-Croation: A Biscriptal Language / Laurie Beth Feldman and Dragana Barac-Cikoja
  South Asia: Coexistence of Scripts / Colin P. Masica
  Christian Missionary Activities / Allan Gleason
  Script Reform in and after the Soviet Union / Bernard Comrie
  Alphabet as a Technology / M. O'Connor
  Numerical Notation / John Soren Pettersson
  Shorthand / Peter T. Daniels
  Phonetic Notation / Michael K. C. MacMahon
  Music Notation / James D. McCawley
  Movement Notation Systems / Brenda Farnell
  Analog and Digital Writing / Peter T. Daniels.