Writing Systems, Alphabets

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk storiespassed down from generation to generationpresented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the fascin...

This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important...

Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its invent...

This book is a quick and easy way to learn the second 100 basic Chinese traditional characters.The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese lang...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores,...

Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary s...

Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq...