Writing Systems, Alphabets

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragme...

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest ...

Learn and practice how to write Chinese characters with this handy workbook!This essential workbook is designed for beginners to learn to write Chi...

Basic Tagalog is a friendly and accessible resource, providing beginning language learners with support, structure and thorough explanations.This i...

Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuali...

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes some new theoretical contributi...

Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and a...

Reveals the esoteric mysteries encoded in the order of the alphabet. Our alphabet hides a Mystery older than its magic of turning sound into shapes...

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...