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Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Reissue edition (30 Jun 1985)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0804717567
ISBN-13: 978-0804717564
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Straightforward, clear, and fun!, 7 Jul 1999

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This, years ago, was just about the first book I read on a linguistic topic, and it's still my favorite. It covers writing systems, using such various interesting cases as Korean, Chinese, and Modern Hebrew. I know of no single book that covers so well such a large (and important) aspect of linguistics as this book, nor does it no intelligently. Plus it's fun.

This book does use linguistic terminology, but is totally accessible to non-linguists.

This book is great for reading on one's own, or could be useful as reading in a linguistics course. It should also be required reading for anyone interested in internationalization of software and any other kind of text processing that could involve non-Roman scripts.

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