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Scripts and Writing Systems: A Historical Perspective

Evaluations of writing systems, or a particular script, are all too often based on the twin assumption that it is the purpose of writing to make language visible; and that the alphabet is best suited to achieve this. Such a Euro-centric approach ignores both history and facts.

Albertine Gaur

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