Writing Systems, Alphabets

Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Mayans. Each of these peoples develope...

'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . ....

This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning f...

Die traditionelle Annahme, dass die Schriftsprache direkt von der gesprochenen Sprache abgeleitet ist, hat sich in jüngerer Forschung als problemat...

Perfect for self-study or classroom learners, this Farsi language book takes a user-friendly approach.Farsi for Beginners is a complete language co...

This is the ideal workbook for anyone who wants to learn to write the Korean Hangul script! It contains a basic introduction to the alphabet and al...

This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen's Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medie...

The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and on...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Prima...

This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen's Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medie...

First full-scale examination of the phenomenon of the English Vernacular minuscule, analysing the full corpus and giving an account of its history ...

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school level. It is intended for classroom use...