Writing systems and phonetics / Book / Alan Cruttenden.

By:

Cruttenden, Alan, 1936- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: xiii, 257 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN:

9780367497231 (paperback)

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DDC classification:

411 23

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Summary: Writing Systems and Phonetics provides students with a critical understanding of the writing systems of the world. Beginning by exploring the spelling of English, including how it arose and how it works today, the book goes on to address over 60 major languages from around the globe and includes detailed descriptions and worked examples of writing systems which foreground the phonetics of these languages. Key areas covered include: the use of the Latin alphabet in and beyond Europe, Writing systems of the eastern Mediterranean, Greek and its Cyrillic offshoot, Arabic and Hebrew ;Languages in south and south-east Asia, including Hindi, Tamil, Burmese and Thai, as well as in east Asia, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean; reflections on ancient languages such as Sumerian, Egyptian, Linear B and Mayan; a final chapter which sets out a typology of writing systems.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 2nd Floor	411 CRU-W 61970 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		10001000061970

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Writing Systems and Phonetics provides students with a critical understanding of the writing systems of the world. Beginning by exploring the spelling of English, including how it arose and how it works today, the book goes on to address over 60 major languages from around the globe and includes detailed descriptions and worked examples of writing systems which foreground the phonetics of these languages. Key areas covered include: the use of the Latin alphabet in and beyond Europe, Writing systems of the eastern Mediterranean, Greek and its Cyrillic offshoot, Arabic and Hebrew ;Languages in south and south-east Asia, including Hindi, Tamil, Burmese and Thai, as well as in east Asia, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean; reflections on ancient languages such as Sumerian, Egyptian, Linear B and Mayan; a final chapter which sets out a typology of writing systems.

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