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Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction

by Andrew Robinson

This concise volume introduces the origins of writing; the routes via which writing spread and developed into hundreds of scripts for some of the worlds thousands of spoken languages; the ways in which different writing systems convey meaning through phonetic signs for consonants, vowels and syllables, combined with logograms - non phonetic signs standing for words; the tools and materials that scribes have used for writing; the purposes to which writing has been put by societies over five millenia; and the extinction and decipherment of scripts - from the introduction. 157p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2009)

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