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Title Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems / Joshua A. Fishman
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
©1977

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Description 1 online resource (492 pages)
Series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 8
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems -- Section One: Theoretical Overviews -- 1. 'The Making of Alphabets' Revisited -- 2. Speech and Spelling -- 3. Principles for the Design of Practical Writing Systems -- 4. The West African Autochthonous Alphabets: An Exercise in Comparative Palaeography -- Section Two: The Creation of Writing Systems -- 5. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John -- 6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Plattdeutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas -- Section Three: The Revision of Classical Writing Systems -- 7. Language and Script Reform in China -- 8. Spelling Reform -- Israel 1968 -- Section Four: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems associated with National Political Establishments -- 9. Successes and Failures in Dutch Spelling Reform -- 10. Successes and Failures in the Reformation of Norwegian Orthography -- 11. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Irish Spelling -- Section Five: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems not associated with National Political Establishments -- 12. The Phenomenological and Linguistic Pilgrimage of Yiddish : Some Examples of Functional and Structural Pidginization and Depidginization -- 13. Successes and Failures in the Standardization and Implementation of Yiddish Spelling and Romanization -- 14. Politics and Alphabets in Inner Asia -- 15. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Hausa Spelling -- 16. The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) -- 17. Written Navajo : A Brief History -- Addendum: A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter
Subject Writing.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
Writing
writing (processes)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling
Writing
Form Electronic book
Author Fishman, Joshua A
ISBN 9783110807097
3110807092