The idea of writing : writing across borders /
This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012
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| Series: | Idea of writing ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Invention and borrowing in the development and dispersal of writing systems / Alex de Voogt
- 27-30-22-26 : how many letters needs an alphabet? The case of Semitic / Reinhard G. Lehmann
- Nubian graffiti messages and the history of writing in the Sudanese Nile basin / Alex de Voogt & Hans-Jörg Döhla
- About "short" names of letters / Konstantin Pozdniakov
- Early adaptations of the Korean script to render foreign languages / Sven Osterkamp
- Han'gŭl reform movement in the twentieth century : Roman pressure on Korean writing / Thorsten Traulsen
- The character of the Indian Kharoṣṭhī script and the "Sanskrit revolution" : a writing system between identity and assimilation / Ingo Strauch
- Symmetry and asymmetry, Chinese writing in Japan : the case of Kojiki (712) / Aldo Tollini
- Writing Semitic with cuneiform script : the interaction of Sumerian and Akkadian orthography in the second half of the third millennium BC / Theo J.H. Krispijn
- Old wine in new wineskins? How to write classical Egyptian rituals in more modern writing systems / Joachim Quack.
