2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2012. — 159 pages. — ISBN: 978-0-203-86548-4. The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Thai and Cree. Full script tables are given for every language and each entry is...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 920 p. — ISBN: 0-19-507993-0. Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world’s writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this...