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Author:   Alex de Voogt ,  Joachim Friedrich Quack
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9789004215450

ISBN 10:   900421545
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   09 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements 1. Invention and Borrowing in the Development and Dispersal of Writing Systems Alex de Voogt 2. 27–30–22–26 – How Many Letters Needs an Alphabet? The Case of Semitic Reinhard G. Lehmann 3. Nubian Grafffijiti Messages and the History of Writing in the Sudanese Nile Basin Alex de Voogt & Hans-Jörg Döhla 4. About “Short” Names of Letters Konstantin Pozdniakov 5. Early Adaptations of the Korean Script to Render Foreign Languages Sven Osterkamp 6. Han’gŭl Reform Movement in the Twentieth Century: Roman Pressure on Korean Writing Thorsten Traulsen 7. The Character of the Indian Kharoṣṭhī Script and the “Sanskrit Revolution”: A Writing System Between Identity and Assimilation Ingo Strauch 8. Symmetry and Asymmetry, Chinese Writing in Japan: The Case of Kojiki (712) Aldo Tollini 9. Writing Semitic with Cuneiform Script. The Interaction of Sumerian and Akkadian Orthography in the Second Half of the Third Millennium BC Theo J.H. Krispijn 10. Old Wine in New Wineskins? How to Write Classical Egyptian Rituals in More Modern Writing Systems Joachim Quack Subject Index Language (Group) and Script Index Author Index

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Alex de Voogt, Ph.D. (1995) in Psychology, Leiden University, is an Assistant Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His studies on writing systems and the dispersal of board games focus on the Indian Ocean region. Joachim Friedrich Quack, Ph.D. (1993) in Egyptology, University of Tübingen, Habilitation (2003) in Egyptology, Free University of Berlin, is Professor of Egyptology at Heidelberg University. He is a leading specialist for Egyptian cursive writing systems. Contributors include Hans-Jörg Döhla, Theo Krispijn, Reinhard Lehmann, Sven Osterkamp, Konstantin Pozdniakov, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Ingo Strauch, Aldo Tollini, Thorsten Traulsen and Alex de Voogt.

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