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Daniels, Peter T. and William Bright, eds. 1996. The world's writing systems. Oxford University Press. xlvi + 920 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
orthography | script | written language, processing of
Language as a subject
Arabic | Chinese | English | Japanese | Romanic | Vietnamese
ISBN
0-19-507993-0

Annotation

This encyclopedic study on how scripts represent languages, covers almost all past and present writing systems, illustrates them and provides up-to-date references. Special topics include the decipherment of ancient writing, script reform, numerical notation and computerization.

Reviewed by

Anderson, Lloyd B. 1997. Review Article - The World's Writing Systems.
Hockett, Charles F. 1997. Review of $The world's writing systems.
DeFrancis, John and J. Marshall Unger. 1997. Review of $The world's writing systems.