The idea of writing : writing across borders / edited by Alex de Voogt and Joachim Friedrich Quack.

This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Voogt, Alexander J. de. Quack, Joachim Friedrich, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Idea of writing ; 2
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505 0 0 |t Invention and borrowing in the development and dispersal of writing systems /  |r Alex de Voogt --  |t 27-30-22-26 : how many letters needs an alphabet? The case of Semitic /  |r Reinhard G. Lehmann --  |t Nubian graffiti messages and the history of writing in the Sudanese Nile basin /  |r Alex de Voogt & Hans-Jörg Döhla --  |t About "short" names of letters /  |r Konstantin Pozdniakov --  |t Early adaptations of the Korean script to render foreign languages /  |r Sven Osterkamp --  |t Han'gŭl reform movement in the twentieth century : Roman pressure on Korean writing /  |r Thorsten Traulsen --  |t The character of the Indian Kharoṣṭhī script and the "Sanskrit revolution" : a writing system between identity and assimilation /  |r Ingo Strauch --  |t Symmetry and asymmetry, Chinese writing in Japan : the case of Kojiki (712) /  |r Aldo Tollini --  |t Writing Semitic with cuneiform script : the interaction of Sumerian and Akkadian orthography in the second half of the third millennium BC /  |r Theo J.H. Krispijn --  |t Old wine in new wineskins? How to write classical Egyptian rituals in more modern writing systems /  |r Joachim Quack. 
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