世界的文字系统
The world's writing systems
William Bright、Peter T. Daniels · 初版 1996 年
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从楔形文字到速记符号，从古希腊语到现代汉语，从古波斯语到现代切罗基语，这是目前唯一一本涵盖从古至今世界上所有书写系统的英文著作。这部极其详尽的权威参考书描述了全球现行或历史上使用过的数十种文字，深入探讨了书写系统的历史与分类学。来自十几个国家的八十多位学者撰文，详尽解释并记录了庞大书写体系的运作机制——字母文字、表意文字、象形文字以及象形符号
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……源于上大学时的中文课）。想了解英语、中文或其他文字系统的 Hacker News 读者，强烈建议去读读 Peter T. Daniels 和 William Bright 编著的《The World's Writing Systems》里的专题文章 http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d... 。关于中文的那篇非常棒，讨论通用特性的概论文章也很……
…from taking university courses in Chinese). Hacker News readers who would like to learn about English, Chinese, or other writing systems would be well advised to read the specialized articles in The World's Writing Systems http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d... edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. The article on Chinese is very good, and the overview articles that discuss general features…
……用于判断关于古代哈拉帕铭文的各种说法的合理性。我强烈推荐一本关于该主题的书，因为是由非常博学的历史语言学家编写的，那就是 Peter T. Daniels 和 William Bright 编著的《The World's Writing Systems》。自该书出版以来，关于哈拉帕铭文出现了一些新研究，相互竞争的学者提出了几种主张和反驳，……
…for judging the plausibility of various claims about the ancient Harappan inscriptions. A book on that topic I highly recommend, because it is written by very knowledgeable historical linguists, is The World's Writing Systems, edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. There has been a little bit of new work on Harappan inscriptions since that book was published, with several claims and counterclaims by competing scholars,…
……方言/语言），而在中国有很多这种方言。因此，要书写粤语、台湾话和上海话，就必须造字或者借助罗马拼音。出处是牛津大学出版社的《The World's Writing Systems》。我向所有对这些问题感兴趣的人推荐这本书。[补充] 如果你好奇的话，中文里也是有回文的，但不是我们习惯的那种基于字母的回文……
…dialects/languages) of which there are many in China. Consequently, to write Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Shanghainese, it is necessary to invent characters or resort to romanization. The source is The World's Writing Systems by Oxford University Press. I recommend this book to everyone who's interested in these matters. [Edit] In case you're wondering, Chinese has palindromes, but not the letter-based ones like we're used…
感谢指出早期中国在表音方面的尝试，我记得在牛津大学出版社那本极好的《The World's Writing Systems》里读到过。抵制提高大众识字率的努力，也被认为是古埃及圣书体在漫长的历史时期内没有太大演变的原因（最早的铭文……
Thanks for pointing out the early Chinese phonetic effort, I remember reading it about in the excellent The World's Writing Systems by OUP. Resisting efforts to broaden literacy for the masses is also cites as the reason why the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing did not evolve much over the vast time period (first inscriptions…
……管理。在第二阶段，语音编码催生了一种新型应用，即信息的书面表达方式可以与此前口头传播的方式完全相同。”[1] 《The World's Writing Systems》，牛津英语词典出版社（OED），1996 年。顺便说一句，如果你对这个话题感兴趣，这是一本必入的好书。[2] http://cdli.ucla.edu/files/publications/cdlj2006_001.pdf
…administration. In the second stage, phonetic coding made a new type of application possible, the written representation of information in the same way as it was previously transmitted orally."" [1] The World's Writing Systems, OED, 1996. This is a fantastic book to have if you're interested in the topic btw. [2] http://cdli.ucla.edu/files/publications/cdlj2006_001.pdf
……John DeFrancis 的《Visible Speech》，http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co... ；截至出版时，关于文字系统国际研究的权威合集是 Peter T. Daniels 和 William Bright 编著、1996 年出版的《The World's Writing Systems》http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d... 。我还没法完全断定印度河流域文字是否可以……
…Speech by John DeFrancis, http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Diverse-Interactions-Co... and the definitive compilation of international research on writing systems to the date of publication is The World's Writing Systems http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Writing-Systems-Peter-Daniels/d... edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright and published in 1996. I haven't concluded absolutely that the Indus Valley Script could…