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Publication details [#41435]
Riney, Timothy. 1998. Pre-colonial Systems of Writing and Post-colonial Languages of Publication. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19 (1) : 64–83. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article examines to what extent the presence or absence of precolonial writing systems may be associated with spoken-written differences as well as different post-colonial developments taken by Southeast Asia, South Asia, North Africa and East Africa vis-a-vis those of West Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.