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"This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts, and orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present. It provides both a fully illustrated description of over 400 writing systems and an account of the study of writing in many different disciplines, from anthropology to psychology. Entries in this encyclopedia describe how writing systems evolved, how they work, and how they differ from each other. The entries deal with technical aspects such as handwriting, printing, and word processing; with practical problems of decipherment, alphabet making, and spelling reform; and with theoretical questions such as the functions of writing and the typology of writing systems." "Florian Coulmas starts from the view that writing reflects a process of linguistic analysis, yet he ranges widely among different scientific disciplines. He draws on historical and paleographic research into the fundamental structural options of representing language by means of a graphic code, on psychological investigation into the cognitive processing of texts, and on sociological and educational inquiry into the social conditions and consequences of literacy." "Entries vary between short expl

Who reads The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems?

Author

Florian Coulmas; Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631214816

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Reference, Fiction

Rating

4.36 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14