ISBN:
9004217002
,
9789004217003
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 254 p.)
,
ill., map.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Idea of writing 2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.2244
Keywords:
Language and languages Orthography and spelling
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Writing
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Written communication
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Language and languages Orthography and spelling
;
Language and languages ; Orthography and spelling
;
Writing
;
Written communication
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy
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Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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