Daniel Buncic

Biscriptality

A sociolinguistic typology

Buch

Serbs write their language in Cyrillic or Latin letters in seemingly random distribution. Hindi-Urdu is written in Nagari by Hindus and in the Arabic script by Muslims. In medieval Scandinavia the Latin alphabet, ink and parchment were used for texts 'for eternity', whereas ephemeral messages were carved into wood in runes. The Occitan language has two competing orthographies. German texts were set either in blackletter or in roman type between 1749 and 1941. In Ancient Egypt the distribution of hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic was much more complex than commonly assumed. Chinese is written with traditional and simpli¿ed characters in differ… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Buncic, Daniel (Hrsg.) / Lippert, Sandra L. (Hrsg.) / Rabus, Achim (Hrsg.) / Antipova, Anastasia (Zus. mit) / Brandt, Carmen (Zus. mit) / Kislova, Ekaterina (Zus. mit) / Klöter, Henning (Zus. mit) / Lieven, Alexandra von (Zus. mit) / Lippert, Sandra L. (Zus. mit) / Pasch, Helma (Zus. mit) / Rabus, Achim (Zus. mit) / Spitzmüller, Jürgen (Zus. mit) / Weth, Constanze (Zus. mit)