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LING 325

Writing Systems

3 units

Fall 2023

Topics

  • Theoretical preliminaries (cont’d)
  • Chinese script
  • Japanese scripts Korean Hangul
  • Cuneiform: Sumerian, Akkadian
  • Cuneiform (Hittite & Persian)
  • Egyptian scripts Semitic scripts
  • Greek alphabet and descendants Roman alphabet
  • South Asian scripts and abugidas
  • Maya script (write-at-home micro-essay due)
  • Other historical Indigenous American scripts: Olmec, epi-Olmec, Aztec, etc
  • Other writing systems: Cree, Cherokee, Inuktitut etc. Classifications & generalizations

Readings

  • Coulmas, Florian (2003). Writing Systems. An Introduction to their Linguistic Analysis. Cambridge University Press. (Available electronically at the UofA Library)
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  • Rogers, H. Writing Systems. A Linguistics Approach
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