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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: The World's Writing Systems (FInally!)
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In article <Overlord-1303961222420001@schiller.vip.best.com>,
Eric Schiller <Overlord@chessworks.com> wrote:
>At long last The Worlds Writing Sytems by Peter Daniels and William
>Bright (Oxford University Press 1996) has appeared. This massive book of
>over 900 pages (I dont know the price, but it is probably frightening)
>covers every writing system with authoritative articles by leading
>scholars.

I was a bit disappointed to see the Shavian alphabet ignored, but at 
least they mentioned Tengwar, even if they didn't treat them in any
detail.  Considering that they covered every writing system in
general use, I can't really complain.

[snip]

>I recommend you urge your library or rich uncle to obtain this book. It
>will certainly be of help to sci.lang-ers, because it provides
>transcriptions for each of the languages.

Seconded.

On a related note, has anyone out there read Insup Taylor's book on
CJK scripts?  I found it rather ambitious, convering everything from
origin to modern character recognition experiments, but unfortunately
somewhat quirky, with a number of unnecessary asides and small--but
annoying--errors.
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	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
	(deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /__\         erhebt Euch
				   /____\      gegen die Kunst!
