The idea of writing : writing across borders / / edited by Alex de Voogt and Joachim Friedrich Quack.
The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. This volume, the second in a series, is specifically concerned with the problems and possibilities of adapting a writing system to another language. Writing is studied as it is used across linguistic and cultural borders fr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Idea of Writing
II. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Invention and Borrowing in the Development and Dispersal of Writing Systems / Alex de Voogt
- 27–30–22–26 – How Many Letters Needs an Alphabet? The Case of Semitic / Reinhard G. Lehmann
- Nubian Graffiti Messages and the History of Writing in the Sudanese Nile Basin / Alex de Voogt and Hans-Jörg Döhla
- About “Short” Names of Letters / Konstantin Pozdniakov
- Early Adaptations of the Korean Script to Render Foreign Languages / Sven Osterkamp
- Han’gŭl Reform Movement in the Twentieth Century: Roman Pressure on Korean Writing / Thorsten Traulsen
- The Character of the Indian Kharoṣṭhī Script and the “Sanskrit Revolution”: A Writing System Between Identity and Assimilation / Ingo Strauch
- Symmetry and Asymmetry Chinese Writing in Japan: The Case of Kojiki (712) / Aldo Tollini
- Writing Semitic with Cuneiform Script. The Interaction of Sumerian and Akkadian Orthography in the Second Half of the Third Millennium BC / Theo J.H. Krispijn
- Old Wine in New Wineskins? How to Write Classical Egyptian Rituals in More Modern Writing Systems / Joachim Quack
- Subject Index
- Language (Group) and Script Index
- Author Index.