Re: Book

Jason Glavy wrote:

>
> Review:
>
> I have the book being written about. While it is one of the best sources
> for the various TAI writing systems, and other writing systems of Southeast
> Asia, short of owning all volumes of Bulletin l'Ecole Francais d'Extreme
> Orient, it doesn't compare to D&B's handling of Maldivian, Arabic originated
> scripts, or Eurolanguages. It is a good companion to D&B, as it fills in
> many of the gaps.

Nu, why don't all you Orientophones publish materials in Western
languages/journals?

> (I'm still waiting for a book that deals with African Scripts rather than
> just small blurbs.....both Sekai Moji Jiten and D&B's WWS are poor in this
> aspect.........Where's Dr. Dalby when you need him?)

I thought he was long deceased, since his articles appeared in the early
1960s and he then disappeared; but it turns out he's trying to make
money off language data with something called "Terralingua." As far as I
could tell from the introductory materials (the website refused to
appear), it's a commercial version of Ethnologue.

I'll check NYPL now -- its Oriental Division remains excellent, although
they seem to have misplaced the last decade of *Jaarbericht Ex Oriente
Lux* ...
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...