An Atlas Of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems On The Verge Vanishing Tim Brookes Quercus Publishing Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Linguistics

A Global Exploration Of The Many Writing Systems That Are On Verge Vanishing And Stories Cultures They Carry With Them If Something Is Important We Write It Down Yet 85% World\ S - Not Granted Official Status Taught In Schools Discouraged Dismissed When Culture Forced To Abandon Its Traditional Script Everything Has Written For Hundreds Years Sacred Texts Poems Personal Correspondence Legal Documents Collective Experience Wisdom Identity People Lost This Atlas About Those Who Trying Save From Ancient Holy Alphabets Middle East Now Used Only By Tiny Sects Newly Created African Designed Keep Cultural Traditions Alive Twenty-First Century: Sudanese Based Ownership Marks Traditionally Branded Into Camels Secret System One Corner China Exclusively Women Record Songs Their Inner Selves: Unique Book Profiles Dozens Scripts Encapsulate Offering Glimpses Worlds Unknown Us Ways Saving Entirely Σελίδες: 256 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1112 Διαστάσεις: 19 2X19 2Cm