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Book: Writing Systems

Chapter: Consonantal writing

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22702

Blurb:

This chapter discusses the properties of scripts that have graphs for consonants but no vowel letters, commonly known as 'Semitic scrpits' using Biblical Hebrew as the exemplar of a type of writing that is still in wide use today.

Chapter Contributors

  • Geoffrey Sampson (book-auth-764@equinoxpub.com - book-auth-764) 'University of South Africa'