The world's writing systems / edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Grammatology -- Study of writing systems Peter T. Daniels -- Ancient Near Eastern Writing Systems -- First civilizations Peter T. Daniels -- Mesopotamian cuneiform -- Egyptian writing Robert K. Ritner -- Epigraphic Semitic scripts M O'Connor -- Anatolian hieroglyphs H. Craig Melchert -- Aegean scripts Emmett K. Bennett -- Old Persian cuneiform David D Testen -- Decipherment -- Methods of decipherment Peter T. Daniels -- Proto-Elamite script Robert K. Englund -- Indus script Asko Parpola -- Maya and other Mesoamerican scripts Martha J. Marcri -- Rongorongo of Easter Island Martha J. Macri -- East Asian Writing Systems -- Early Chinese writing William G. Boltz -- Modern Chinese writing Victor H. Mair -- Japanese writing Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith -- Korean writing Ross King -- Yi script Dingxu Shi -- Asian calligraphy John Stevens -- European Writing Systems -- Transmission of the Phoenician script to the West Pierre Swiggers -- Greek alphabet Leslie Threatte -- 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 -- South Asian Writing Systems -- 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 BP 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 -- Southeast Asian Writing Systems -- Spread of Brahmi script into Southeast Asia Christopher Court -- Burmese writing Julian J. Wheatley -- Thai and Lao writing Anthony Diller -- Numerals and other symbols -- Khmer writing Eric Schiller -- Insular Southeast Asian scripts Joel C. Kuipers and Ray McDermott -- Middle Eastern Writing Systems - -- Jewish scripts Richard L. Goerwitz -- Aramaic scripts for Aramaic languages Peter T. Daniels -- Aramaic scripts for Iranian languages P. Oktor Skjaerovo -- Aramaic scripts for Altaic languages Gyorgy Kara -- Arabic writing Thomas Bauer -- Ethiopic writing Getatchew Haile -- Scripts Invented in Modern Times -- 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 -- Use and Adaptation Of Scripts -- Functional classification John Mountford -- Adaptations of the Roman alphabet -- Adaptations of the Cyrillic alphabet Bernard Comrie -- Adaptations of Hebrew script Benjamin Hary -- Adaptations of Arabic script Alan S. Kaye -- Sociolinguistics and Scripts -- Germany : script and politics Gerhard Augst -- Serbo-Croatian : 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 -- Secondary Notation Systems -- 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 -- Imprinting and Printing -- Analog and digital writing Peter T. Daniels.

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