An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets
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A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the
verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with
them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the
world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted
official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and
dismissed.When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional
script, everything it has written for hundreds of years - sacred
texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the
collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people - is lost.
This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are
trying to save them. From the ancient holy alphabets of the Middle
East, now used only by tiny sects, to newly created African
alphabets designed to keep cultural traditions alive in the
twenty-first century: from a Sudanese script based on the ownership
marks traditionally branded into camels, to a secret system used in
one corner of China exclusively by women to record the songs and
stories of their inner selves: this unique book profiles dozens of
scripts and the cultures they encapsulate, offering glimpses of
worlds unknown to us - and ways of saving them from vanishing
entirely.
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Quercus ,
Tim Brookes
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Quercus,
Tim Brookes
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