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Afrikan Alphabets
Saki Mafundikwa
其他書名
The Story of Writing in Afrika
出版Mark Batty, 2004
主題Art / Techniques / CalligraphyArt / AfricanDesign / Graphic Arts / GeneralDesign / Graphic Arts / TypographyForeign Language Study / African LanguagesLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing SystemsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
ISBN09724240679780972424066
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q8hkAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Afrikan alphabets have a long history, fantastic variety, and some continue to be in current use today. They are comparatively little known due largely to their suppression by colonial powers. This book sets the record straight. An entertaining and anecdotal text explains the wealth of highly graphical and attractive illustrations. Writing systems across the Afrikan continent are reviewed: the scripts of the West Africans - Mende, Vai, Nsibidi, Bamum and the Somali, and Ethiopian scripts are included, analyzed and illustrated. Other alphabets, writing styles, paintings, pictographs, ideographs, and symbols are compared and contrasted. All the writing systems are put into the context of their use as a means to impart and record information and to communicate complex ideas.