Writing Systems and Phonetics

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Technical terms and symbols
Chapter 1 English spelling
Chapter 2 Latin-based alphabets in European languages
Chapter 3 Latin-based alphabets outside Europe
Chapter 4 Greek, Cyrillic and related alphabets
Chapter 5 Hebrew, Arabic and related alphabets
Chapter 6 South and south-east Asian scripts
Chapter 7 East Asian scripts
Chapter 8 The world’s earliest writing and its decipherment
Chapter 9 More early writing and its decipherment
Chapter 10 A typology of writing systems
Bibliography
Appendix 1: International Phonetic Alphabet
Appendix 2: Some basic variation in writing systems
Appendix 3: Writing materials
Index