Description
Summary: | This volume provides a space for the development of dialogue between dialectologists, language community activists, and other researchers working on the development of orthographies regarding issues that arise during the creation of writing systems in places where there is dialect variation and an absence of writing systems, or where there is a writing system for a national language but not for the particular related language. The chapters in this volume address two major themes: first, the imperative for standardization is influenced by many social and political factors, including identity,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781443872959 1443872954 1322607745 9781322607740 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015). |