Dear Linguasport visitors
Let me introduce an original collection in linguistics written by me: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WRITING SYSTEMS (7 vols.). This innovative work provides an individual and exhaustive investigation and a reasoned general taxonomy of ALL THE 334 WRITING SYSTEMS (both past and present) developed for the representation of natural languages, together with a selection of 1,118 artificial scripts and 136 auxiliary scripts, classified by clear-cut and reasoned criteria into seven major structural categories: alphabets, consonantaries, alphasyllabaries, syllabaries, semi-syllabaries, logographies and pictographs. Mixed systems (such as logosyllabic or syllabic-logographic scripts) are listed within the category which best suits their typology (although a specific description of this mixture is included in their entry). Following next is an overview of this collection, including the index of contents (which shows the originality, depth and exhaustiveness of this linguistic encyclopedia), publishing links to Amazon - United Kingdom (also available in many other countries) and sample documents.
The ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WRITING SYSTEMS (EWS) is a revolutionary work which offers the first complete and methodical classification and description of all the 334 graphic repertoires used for the representation of natural languages (both living and extinct) and a representative selection of 1,118 constructed scripts and 136 auxiliary systems, classified in a reasoned and justified way within seven structural categories: alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, semi-syllabaries, logographs and pictographs. The different indexes included in EWS (alphabetic, categorial, linguistic, graphic, historical...) will help the reader navigate and understand the enormous complexity of writing systems and their internal relations, whereas the ortho-phonetic charts and spelling rules will make it possible to read those systems and understand their functioning. Because of its clear presentation, thoroughness and graphic accuracy, EWS is at the same time a practical and accessible reference manual and a valuable linguistic tool which will be appreciated both by the general reader and the academic community. Can you imagine being able to read and write Mayan pictographs without any previous background on this system? With EWS it is now possible.
The seven volumes forming EWS cover all the structural systems developed in the history of human cognition for the representation of all natural languages and a representative selection of conscripts and auxiliary scripts (used for both natural and constructed languages):
● ALPHABETIC INDEX OF WRITING SYSTEMS ● Volume 1: Alfabets ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE (Coptic) ● Volume 2: Abjads ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE (Hieratic) ● Volume 3: Abugidas (I) ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE (Baybayin) ● Volume 4: Abugidas (II) ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE (Tai Viet) ● Volume 5: Syllabaries and semi-syllabaries ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE 1 (Linear B) / SAMPLE 2 (Meroitic) ● Volume 6: Logographs and pictographs ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE 1 (Jurchen) / SAMPLE 2 (Aztec) ● Volume 7: Constructed and auxiliary scripts ⇒ ⇒ LINK / SAMPLE 1 (Klingon) / SAMPLE 2 (Bopomofo) |