The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets

✍ Scribed by George L Campbell, Christopher Moseley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world.

The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Thai and Cree. Full script tables are given for every language and each entry is accompanied by a detailed overview of its historical and linguistic context.

New to this second edition:

• enhanced introduction discussing the basic principles and strategies utilized by world writing systems
• expanded to include more writing systems
• improved presentation of non-Roman scripts.
• organised into ancient, contemporary and autochthonous writing systems
• many new entries on fascinating and lesser-known writing systems

This handy resource is the ideal reference for all students and scholars of language and linguistics.

It has been brought to our attention that in some of the copies of the book there is an alignment error in the tables for Cyrillic Scripts (pages 88-90) and Roman Scripts (pages 140-44). Please contact us at [email protected] to receive replacement copies of the corrected tables, free of charge.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
Note on phonetic symbols
Introduction: the world’s families of scripts
Ancient writing systems
Aegean scripts
Anatolian scripts
Aramaic
Syriac
Brāhmī
Coptic
Egyptian
Epigraphic South Arabian
Etruscan see under Roman (Latin)Gothic
Javanese (Kawi)
Maya
Ogham
Persian Cuneiform
Runic
Turkic Runes
Contemporary writing systems
Arabic
Armenian
Batak
Bengali
Berber (Tifinagh)
Buginese-Macassarese
Burmese
Cambodian
Cherokee
Chinese
Archaic Chinese
Classical Chinese (Wenli)
Modern Chinese
Cree
Cyrillic
Devanāgarī
Ethiopic
Georgian
Greek
Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Hebrew
Yiddish
Japanese
Kannada
Korean
Lao
Malayalam
Mongolian
Oriya
Roman (Latin)
Sinhalese
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Yi
Autochthonous writing systems
Fraser script (Lisu)
Munda language scripts
N’ko
Pahawh Hmong
Pollard script
Rongorongo
Vai
Further reading
Index