Arvind Iyengar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Arvind Iyengar plays a role.
Articles
2023 More matters of typology: Alphasyllabaries, abugidas and related vowelled segmentaries On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems, Mora-Marín, David F. and Lynne Cahill (eds.), pp. 30–56 | Article
Since their coinage a quarter-century ago, the terms abugida and alphasyllabary (Bright 1999; Daniels & Bright 1996) have revolutionised our conceptualisation of writing systems. Together with alphabet, these terms have proven invaluable in classifying subtypes of segmentaries–writing systems… read more
2018 Variation in Perso-Arabic and Devanāgarī Sindhī orthographies: An overview Written Language & Literacy 21:2, pp. 169–197 | Article
The Sindhī language has been written in numerous scripts throughout its history. However, in the twentieth century, Perso-Arabic and Devanāgarī emerged as the dominant scripts for the language. Today, Perso-Arabic is the sole official script for Sindhī in Pakistan, while both Perso-Arabic and… read more