The writing systems of the world
Coulmas, Florian1991
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This book describes world writing systems from earliest times to the present, tracing an apparent pattern of evolution from the iconic precursors of writing, through increasingly more stylized and abstract pictograms to purely arbitrary phonetic symbols.
Main title:
The writing systems of the world / Florian Coulmas.
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Imprint:
Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1989 (1991[printing])
Collation:
[302]p. : ill. ; 24cm.
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Notes:
Bibliography: p274-289. - Includes index.
ISBN:
9780631180289 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
381073
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