The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan.
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| Superior document: | The language library |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Language library.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- The first IT revolution
- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people
- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity
- Chinese: a love of paperwork
- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings
- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon
- Japanese: three scripts are better than one
- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers
- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years
- The empire of Sanskrit
- King Sejong's one-man renaissance
- Greek serendipity
- The age of Latin
- The alphabet meets the machine.