The idea of writing : writing across borders / edited by Alex de Voogt and Joachim Friedrich Quack.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Invention and borrowing in the development and dispersal of writing systems / Alex de Voogt -- 27-30-22-26 : how many letters needs an alphabet? The case of Semitic / Reinhard G. Lehmann -- Nubian graffiti messages and the history of writing in the Sudanese Nile basin / Alex de Voogt & Hans-Jörg Döhla -- About "short" names of letters / Konstantin Pozdniakov -- Early adaptations of the Korean script to render foreign languages / Sven Osterkamp -- Han'gŭl reform movement in the twentieth century : Roman pressure on Korean writing / Thorsten Traulsen -- The character of the Indian Kharoṣṭhī script and the "Sanskrit revolution" : a writing system between identity and assimilation / Ingo Strauch -- Symmetry and asymmetry, Chinese writing in Japan : the case of Kojiki (712) / Aldo Tollini -- Writing Semitic with cuneiform script : the interaction of Sumerian and Akkadian orthography in the second half of the third millennium BC / Theo J.H. Krispijn -- Old wine in new wineskins? How to write classical Egyptian rituals in more modern writing systems / Joachim Quack.

This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.

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