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Chichester, U.K●Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell

The language library

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-The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong s one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine

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Amalia E. Gnanadesikan

Includes bibliographical references: p. 281-296

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2009