The world's writing systems / [print]
edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright.
- New York : Oxford University Press, (c)1996.
- xlv, 920 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Grammatology -- Study of writing systems Ancient Near Eastern Writing Systems -- First civilizations Mesopotamian cuneiform -- Egyptian writing Epigraphic Semitic scripts Anatolian hieroglyphs Aegean scripts Old Persian cuneiform Decipherment -- Methods of decipherment Proto-Elamite script Indus script Maya and other Mesoamerican scripts Rongorongo of Easter Island East Asian Writing Systems -- Early Chinese writing Modern Chinese writing Japanese writing Korean writing Yi script Asian calligraphy European Writing Systems -- Transmission of the Phoenician script to the West Greek alphabet Scripts of Italy Roman alphabet Runic script Ogham Slavic alphabets Armenian alphabet Georgian alphabet South Asian Writing Systems -- Brahmi and Kharoshthi Devanagari script Gujarati writing Gurmukhi script Bengali writing Oriya writing Sinhala writing Kannada and Telugu writing Malayalam writing Tamil writing Tibetan script and derivatives Southeast Asian Writing Systems -- Spread of Brahmi script into Southeast Asia Burmese writing Thai and Lao writing Numerals and other symbols -- Khmer writing Insular Southeast Asian scripts Middle Eastern Writing Systems - -- Jewish scripts Aramaic scripts for Aramaic languages Aramaic scripts for Iranian languages Aramaic scripts for Altaic languages Arabic writing Ethiopic writing Scripts Invented in Modern Times -- Invention of writing Cherokee writing Scripts of West Africa Cree syllabary Scripts for Munda languages Pahawh Hmong script Use and Adaptation Of Scripts -- Functional classification Adaptations of the Roman alphabet -- Adaptations of the Cyrillic alphabet Adaptations of Hebrew script Adaptations of Arabic script Sociolinguistics and Scripts -- Germany : script and politics Serbo-Croatian : a biscriptal language South Asia : coexistence of scripts Christian missionary activities Script reform in and after the Soviet Union Secondary Notation Systems -- Alphabet as a technology Numerical notation Shorthand Phonetic notation Music notation Movement notation systems Imprinting and Printing -- Analog and digital writing Peter T. Daniels -- Peter T. Daniels -- Robert K. Ritner -- M O'Connor -- H. Craig Melchert -- Emmett K. Bennett -- David D Testen -- Peter T. Daniels -- Robert K. Englund -- Asko Parpola -- Martha J. Marcri -- Martha J. Macri -- William G. Boltz -- Victor H. Mair -- Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith -- Ross King -- Dingxu Shi -- John Stevens -- Pierre Swiggers -- Leslie Threatte -- Larissa Bonfante -- Stan Knight -- Ralph W. V. Elliott -- Damian McManus -- Paul Cubberley -- Avedis K Sanjian -- Dee Ann Holisky -- Richard G. Salomon -- William Bright -- P. J. Mistry -- Harjeet Singh Gill -- Tista Bagchi -- BP Mahapatra -- James W. Gair -- William Bright -- K. P. Mohanan -- Sanford B. Steever -- Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp -- Christopher Court -- Julian J. Wheatley -- Anthony Diller -- Eric Schiller -- Joel C. Kuipers and Ray McDermott -- Richard L. Goerwitz -- Peter T. Daniels -- P. Oktor Skjaerovo -- Gyorgy Kara -- Thomas Bauer -- Getatchew Haile -- Peter T. Daniels -- Janine Scancarelli -- John Victor Singler -- John D. Nichols -- Norman Zide -- Martha Ratliff -- John Mountford -- Bernard Comrie -- Benjamin Hary -- Alan S. Kaye -- Gerhard Augst -- Laurie Beth Feldman and Dragana Barac-Cikoja -- Colin P. Masica -- Allan Gleason -- Bernard Comrie -- M O'Connor -- John Soren Pettersson -- Peter T. Daniels -- Michael K. C. MacMahon -- James D. McCawley -- Brenda Farnell -- Peter T. Daniels.