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Author Ouaknin, Marc-Alain.

Uniform Title Mysteres de l'alphabet. English
Title Mysteries of the alphabet : the origins of writing / Marc-Alain Ouaknin ; translated from the French by Josephine Bacon.

Imprint New York : Abbeville Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  411 Ou1m    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Adams  411 Ou1m c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-375).
Contents A short history of writing -- Pictogram, ideogram, and phonogram -- The Lady of the Turquoise: proto-Sinaitic script -- The example of the letter aleph -- When aleph became alpha -- The alphabet -- The archeographic revolution.
Summary Traces the origins of the alphabet beginning with the first pictograms of 5,000 years ago, describing the changes the alphabet has gone through in different countries and cultures.
Subject Alphabet -- History.
Writing -- History.
ISBN 0789205238
9780789205230
0789205211 (pbk.)
9780789205216 (pbk.)

 
    
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