
Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
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- Intro
- Preface
- Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
- SECTION I: 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 II: THE CREATION OF WRITING SYSTEMS
- 5. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John
- 6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Platt- deutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas
- SECTION III: THE REVISION OF CLASSICAL WRITING SYSTEMS
- 7. Language and Script Reform in China
- 8. Spelling Reform - Israel 1968
- SECTION IV : 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 v: 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
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