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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

- Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing
Af: Tim Brookes Engelsk Hardback

An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

- Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing
Af: Tim Brookes Engelsk Hardback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781529408249
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1529408245
Kategori: Skriftsystemer, alfabeter
Udg. Dato: 29 aug 2024
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 253mm
Forlag: Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato: 29 aug 2024
Forfatter(e): Tim Brookes
Forfatter(e) Tim Brookes

Kategori Skriftsystemer, alfabeter

ISBN-13 9781529408249

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 253mm

Udg. Dato 29 aug 2024

Oplagsdato 29 aug 2024

Forlag Quercus Publishing

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