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| #2634244 in Books | 1989-06-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great read!|By Joshua Xiong|Great book! Definitely worth reading for class!|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good book.|By Garrison56|Good book for those interested in languages and writing systems.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| No complaints, but not spectacula|From Library Journal|Coulmas argues that contrary to the views of some linguists, writing has an important place in the study of language. Though specialists will be most comfortable with the intricacies of this dispute, nonspecialists can still enjoy this book
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 are Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform systems of the Near East, the persistence of the apparently cumbersome system of Chinese writing, the semitic languages of Western Asia and the Middle east, early Indian languages an...
You easily download any file type for your device.The Writing Systems of the World (Language Library) | Florian Coulmas. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.