TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniels,Peter T.
AU  - Bright,William
TI  - The world's writing systems
AV  - P211.B855.W675 1996 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Writing
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - Graphemics
N1  - 2; 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; 2
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