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Creating Standards - Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures (Hardcover)
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Creating Standards - Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various
tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and
layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside
disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological
cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve
Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures,
languages and scripts interact. A wide range of case studies give
insights into the factors behind uniformity and variation in
Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew script, South Palestinian Christian Arabic,
New Persian, Aljamiado of the Spanish Moriscos, Ottoman Turkish, a
single multilingual Ottoman manuscript, Sino-Arabic in northwest
China, Malay Jawi in the Moluccas, Kanuri and Hausa in Nigeria,
Kabyle in Algeria, and Ethiopian Fidal script as used to
transliterate Arabic. One of the findings of this volume is that
different domains of manuscript cultures have distinct paths of
standardisation, so that orthography tends to develop its own
standardisation principles irrespective of norms applied to layout
and script types. This book will appeal to readers interested in
manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, and history
of writing.
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