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Handbook of scripts and alphabets

The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Thai and Cree. Full script tables are given for every language and each entry is accompanied by a detailed overview of its historical and linguistic context
Print Book, English, 1997
Routledge, New York, 1997
Handbook
vii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415137157, 9780415183444, 0415137152, 0415183448
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Arabic
Armenian
Batak
Bengali
Berber
buginese
Burmese
Cambodian
Cherokee
Chinese
Coptic
Cree
Cyrillic (with Old Church Slavonic)
Devanāgarī
Egyptian
Epigraphic South Arabian
Ethiopic
Georgian
Gothic
Greek
Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Hebrew (with Yiddish)
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Korean
Lao
Malayalam
Mongolian
Oriya
Roman
Samaritan
Sinhalese
Syriac
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
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