Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

This well-written introduction analyses a wide variety of the world's very different writing systems from a linguistic point of view. It even shows and explains the writing systems concerned, making the book interesting not only for people who have prior knowledge of the scripts, but for anyone interested in writing. Focus is on the different structures of writing systems, and on the devellopment of writing systems through time.