The Writing Systems of the World by Florian Coulmas

The Writing Systems of the World

Florian Coulmas

304 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

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This book is ana account of writing systems from ancient times to the present. It traces the evolution from the iconic precursors of writing through stylized and abstract pictograms to purely arbitrary phonetic symbols. Among the sdubjects covered...

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