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Writing systems

Index of SIL publications on Writing systems listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Writing systems available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• ALBRIGHT, Eric Scott, author. 2000. Design of an electronic method for describing writing systems.  
• ALBRIGHT, Eric Scott, author. 2001. Design of an electronic method for describing writing systems.
• BEACHY, Marvin, author. 1993. Review of: Alphabet roots, by Wally Kennicutt.
• BEACHY, Marvin, author. 1993. Review of: The alphabet makers, by Katherine Voigtlander and Karen Lewis.
• BENDOR-SAMUEL, David, author. 1990. "Factors affecting the successful development of spoken languages into written ones."
• BLAIR, Frank, author. 1992. Review of: Mother of writing: the origin and development of a Hmong Messianic script, by William A. Smalley, Chia Koua Vang and Gnia Yee Yang.
• BLAIR, Frank, author. 1992. Review of: The life of Shong Lue Yang: Hmong ‘Mother of writing’ keeb kwm soob lwj yaj: Hmoob ‘Niam ntawv’, by Chia Koua Vang, Gnia Yee Yang and William A. Smalley.
• CONSTABLE, Peter G., author. 2001. "Appendix B: A review of characters with compatibility decompositions."  
• GAULTNEY, J. Victor; LYONS, Melinda, authors. 2001. "The NRSI model for implementing writing systems: an introduction."  
• HALLISSY, Bob, author. 2001. "Rendering technologies overview."  
• HOPKINS, Jason, author. 2008. "Choosing how to write sign language: a sociolinguistic perspective."  
• HOSKEN, Martin, author. 2001. "An introduction to keyboard design theory: what goes where?."  
• HOSKEN, Martin, author. 2001. "An introduction to smart font rendering: glyph tracing for beginners."
• HUNT, Geoffrey R., author. 2007. "Watch out! Unicode is coming."  
• KENNICUTT, Wally; PITTMAN, Richard S., authors. 1993. The old lamplighters.
• KEW, Jonathan; WARD, Alan, authors. 2001. "Appendix C.: TrueType table listing."  
• LYONS, Melinda, author. 2001. "Graphite and WorldPad: tools for writing the world's other languages."
• LYONS, Melinda; NRSI Team, editors. 2001. Implementing writing systems: an introduction.  
• PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1991. The faculty of letters.
• PRIEST, Lorna, author. 2001. "Challenges in publishing with non-Roman scripts."  
• SIM, Ronald J., author. 1998. Review of: The world’s writing system, Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, editors.
• SIMONS, Gary F., author. 1989. "The computational complexity of writing systems."  
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1997. Review of: The acquisition of a second writing system, by Rosemary Sassoon.
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 2005. Review of: Writing systems: an introduction to their linguistic analysis, by Florian Coulmas.
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 2008. "The sociolinguistics of script choice: an introduction."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• FLUCKIGER, Cheryl; WHALEY, Annie, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1981. A proposed writing system for the Mandara language.  

Central African Republic

• KARAN, Elke, author. 2006. Writing system development and reform: a process.

Sudan

• AHMED, Ibrahim, author. 2004. "Suggestions for writing modern Nubian languages."

Tanzania

• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2004. A pilot study of writing in Rangi society.  

Americas

Suriname

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1987. "The Afaka script: An indigenous creole syllabary."

Asia

Bhutan

• CHAMBERLAIN, Bradford, author. 2008. "Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments."  

China

• CHAMBERLAIN, Bradford, author. 2008. "Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments."  
• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1983. "Graphemic theory and Chinese data entry."

India

• CHAMBERLAIN, Bradford, author. 2008. "Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments."  

Mongolia

• CHAMBERLAIN, Bradford, author. 2008. "Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments."  

Nepal

• CHAMBERLAIN, Bradford, author. 2008. "Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments."  

Pakistan

• CHAMBERLAIN, Bradford, author. 2008. "Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments."  

Thailand

• HANNA, William J., author. 1983. "700 years of Thai writing."
• PERSON, Kirk R.; PERSON, Suzanne R., authors. 1996. "Write that tone! language preservation issues in everyday attempts to write Northern Thai tones using Central Thai script."

Viet Nam

• BLOOD, Doris E., author. 2008. "The ascendancy of the Cham script: how a literacy workshop became the catalyst."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• CLIFTON, John M., editor. 1987. Studies in Melanesian orthographies.