The World's Writing Systems

Daniels, P. T., & Bright, W. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1996

ISBN

9780195079937

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1271034Mmatched

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Domain-specific

• Morphogram
  • The category describes a sign function, not an intrinsic visual property.
• Syllabary
  • Daniels contrasts this with an abugida, where a consonant-plus-inherent-vowel base is systematically modified for other vowels.

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