Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Consonantal writing
Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson [+]
University of South Africa
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).
Description
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.