Brāhmī-derived orthographies are typologically āksharik but functionally predominantly alphabetic

Writing Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-53

  Rimzhim, Anurag ^a,b   Katz, Leonard ^a,b   Fowler, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Abugida; Akshar; Alphasyllabary; Br hm ; Devn gr ; Hind ; Indo ryan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894533808     PISSN: 17586801     EISSN: 1758681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2013.855618     Document Type: Article

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