The Routledge handbook of scripts and alphabets / / George L. Campbell and Christopher Moseley

• Autore: Campbell George L
• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 411
• Soggetto topico: Writing; Alphabet
• Altri autori: MoseleyChristopher
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Note on phonetic symbols; Introduction: the world's families of scripts; Ancient writing systems; Aegean scripts; Anatolian scripts; Aramaic; Syriac; Brāhmī; Coptic; Egyptian; Epigraphic South Arabian; Etruscan see under Roman (Latin)Gothic; Javanese (Kawi); Maya; Ogham; Persian Cuneiform; Runic; Turkic Runes; Contemporary writing systems; Arabic; Armenian; Batak; Bengali; Berber (Tifinagh); Buginese-Macassarese; Burmese; Cambodian; Cherokee; Chinese ; Archaic ChineseClassical Chinese (Wenli); Modern Chinese; Cree; Cyrillic; Devanāgarī; Ethiopic; Georgian; Greek; Gujarati; Gurmukhi; Hebrew; Yiddish; Japanese; Kannada; Korean; Lao; Malayalam; Mongolian; Oriya; Roman (Latin); Sinhalese; Tamil; Telugu; Thai; Tibetan; Yi; Autochthonous writing systems; Fraser script (Lisu); Munda language scripts; N'ko; Pahawh Hmong; Pollard script; Rongorongo; Vai; Further reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Thai and Cree. Full script tables are given for every language and each entry is accompanied by a detailed overview of its historical and linguistic context. New to this second edition:enhanced introduction discussing the basic principles and strategies utilized by world writing systems expanded to
• Titolo autorizzato: The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets
• ISBN: 0-203-86548-0; 1-135-22297-5; 9786613903662; 1-135-22294-0; 1-283-59121-9; 1-135-22296-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808789703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II