This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from
earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex
ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict.
Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of
spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the
development of language itself.
His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system
of the ancient Near East; he describes Chinese writing, discussing
why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for
more than 3,000 years; he ranges across the writing systems of
western Asia and the Middle East, the Indian families and the
various alphabetic traditions which had its origins in the
multifarious world of Semitic writing and came to full bloom in
pre-Classical Greece.
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