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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets (Hardcover)
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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets (Hardcover)
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A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the
verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with
them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the
world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted
official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed.
When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script,
everything it has written for hundreds of years - sacred texts,
poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective
experience, wisdom and identity of a people - is lost. This Atlas
is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to
save them. From the ancient holy alphabets of the Middle East, now
used only by tiny sects, to newly created African alphabets
designed to keep cultural traditions alive in the twenty-first
century: from a Sudanese script based on the ownership marks
traditionally branded into camels, to a secret system used in one
corner of China exclusively by women to record the songs and
stories of their inner selves: this unique book profiles dozens of
scripts and the cultures they encapsulate, offering glimpses of
worlds unknown to us - and ways of saving them from vanishing
entirely.
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