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The writing revolution : cuneiform to the internet / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan

By: Gnanadesikan, Amalia EMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Language libraryPublisher: Malden, MA, USA Oxford, UK Wiley-Blackwell 2009Description: xii, 310 s. , [8] pl.-s. (vissa i färg) ill., kartor, tabISBN: 978-1-4051-5407-9; 1-4051-5406-3; 1-4051-5407-1; 978-1-4051-5406-2Subject(s): Alphabet -- History | Writing -- History | Alfabet -- historia | SkrifthistoriaDDC classification: 411.09 Other classification: Afa
Contents:
The first it revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine
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The first it revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine

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