The World's Writing Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3968751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edwin Gerow |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The world's writing systems, Peter T Daniels, 1996 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/605687 |
| OpenAlex | W2012557190 |
| Language | EN |
The World's Writing Systems meets the need for a definitive volume on the major historical and modern writing systems of the world. Comprising more than eighty articles contributed by expert scholars in the field, the work is organized in twelve units, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Each unit begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was created and developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system in question, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. Each article concludes with a bibliography. Units are arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationship within geographical areas. First, there is a discussion of the earliest scripts of the ancient Near East. Subsequent units focus on the scripts of East Asia, the writing systems of Europe, Asia, and Africa that have descended from ancient West Semitic (Phoenician), and the scripts of South and Southeast Asia. Other units deal with the recent and ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic systems for numerical, music, and movement notation. The result is a comprehensive resource of all of the major writing systems of the world
Archaeology · Writing system · History · Media, Communication, and Education
Taking a line for a dance
Šawaš ılıˀ--šawaš wawa
Not just phonology
Cross-script effects of cognitive-linguistic skills on Japanese Hiragana and Kanji
The multiple-level framework of developmental dyslexia
A cross-orthographic view of dyslexia identification
Introduction
Early challenges to multilingualism on the Internet
Biologising reading problems
Neurobiological alphabets
Romanization and the digital future of philology
Diversity Analyses on the Basic Vowel Qualities among the Human Languages
Jawi, an endangered orthography in the Malaysian linguistic landscape
On the notions of graphematic representation and orthography from the perspective of the Japanese writing system
More than an alphabet
How do previously acquired languages affect acquisition of English as a foreign language
Core syllables vs. moraic writing
Logography and layering
Segments and syllables in Hangeul and Thaana
A proposal for a formalized, expandable approach to the taxonomy of writing systems
From abugida to alphabet in Konso, Ethiopia
Hebrew script for Jewish languages
Writing vowels in Punic
When is non-writing writing? or, When is writing non-writing
Variation in Perso-Arabic and Devanāgarī Sindhī orthographies
What is natural in writing
More matters of typology
Writing systems
Grammaticality judgment of Chinese and English sentences by native speakers of alphasyllabary
The Jewish Ḥāfeẓ
Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Digital Era
"Whatsupoch" on the Net
The Conservation of Knowledge and Technology of the Word in Korea
Horizontes y cambios lingüísticos en la prehistoria de los Andes centrales
Negotiating Narrative Domains
Modes of Continuity and Change in Action Sign Systems
Context-aware Transliteration of Romanized South Asian Languages
Computational Constancy Measures of Texts—Yule's K and Rényi's Entropy
Do pinyin and character recognition help each other grow
Situated temporal reference
Testing the Learnability of Writing Systems
A statistical comparison of written language and nonlinguistic symbol systems
A statistical comparison of written language and nonlinguistic symbol systems
I can't tell you all my troubles
A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script
Scripts, religion, and ideology
Writing in a sacred tongue
Writing systems
Linguistic modalities and the sources of linguistic utterances
On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice
Prelude to the Principles of 1949
Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System
Geoffrey Sampson, Writing systems, 2nd edn. Sheffield
The Second Somatic Revolution1
Introduction
Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia
How the Origins of Written Language Instruct Us to Teach
Methods of Using Phylogenetic Systematics to Reconstruct the History of the Linear B Script
Crip Walk, Villain Dance, Pueblo Stroll
The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area
Introduction
Intelligence in Cultural, Social and Educational Context
Policies on the Planning and Use of the Yi Language and Writing Systems
Synchronizing the Chinese Language
Oral and Literate Expression
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
The Art of Not Being Scripted So Much
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes
Towards a universal model of reading
Number as a cognitive technology
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics
The Fātimid state, 969–1171
The monetary history of Egypt, 642–1517
The Oxford Gothic Grammar
The Bahrī Mamlūk sultanate, 1250–1390
The Ismā‘īlī Da‘wa and the Fātimid caliphate
Islamic Egypt 640-1517
Egypt in the world system of the later Middle Ages
Exploring the Complexity of the L2 Intonation System
A Ciência Da Leitura E Suas Implicações Educacionais
A Representação Escrita De Ruídos E De Ações Em Charges E Em Histórias Em Quadrinhos
Shifting Between Writing Systems
Learning Alphabetic System Difficulties
Formazione delle scritture alfabetiche in Italia centrale. Riflessioni sul caso dell'etrusco e alfabetti conessi
Writing as an extended cognitive system
Human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased
Linguistic types are capacity-individuated action-types
The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination
Runes from Lány (Czech Republic) - The oldest inscription among Slavs. A new standard for multidisciplinary analysis of runic bones
The Shifting Now
Subtypes of reading disability in a shallow orthography
Reckonings
The Qing Tradition and the Return of Manchu Lexicography to China (1970s-1990s)
Named speech registers and the inscription of locality in the Dutch East Indies
"Language, writing, and disciplinarity in the Critique of the "Ideographic Myth
Public information
The phonetics of native North American languages
The Role of Phonological versus Morphological Skills in the Development of Arabic Spelling
The effects of orthographic depth on learning to read alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic scripts
Mesoamerican Literacies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |