Orthography studies
Subtitle: articles on new writing systems
By: by William A. Smalley and others
Series: Helps for translators -- v. 6; Helps for translators -- v. 6.
Publisher: United Bible Societies
Published: 1964
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Phonetic transcriptions; 11.32 history of text and translation of the Bible; Language and languages; Writing
Notes: Bibliography: p. 165-168.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Writing systems and their characteristics / William A. Smalley; title: Principles of orthography preparation. What is phonemics? / Eugene A. Nida ; Practical limitations to a phonemic alphabet / Eugene A. Nida ; How shall I write this language? / William A. Smalley; title: Compromise between conflicting writing systems. A problem in orthography preparation / William A. Smalley ; Spelling difficulties in Sranan / J. Voorhoeve; title: Adaptation to culturally dominant systems. The use of non-Roman script for new languages / William A. Smalley ; Some language problems of Formosa / John Whitehorn ; Several Kru orthographies / Joseph E. Grimes, Augustus B. Marwieh, and Amy Bauernschmidt ; Orthography conference for French West Africa / William A. Smalley; title: Special problems involving tone. Some problems in writing tone / J. Voorhoeve ; A tone orthography for Trique / Robert E. Longacre; title: Dialect, transliteration, word division, grammar, questions. Dialect and orthography in Gipende / William A. Smalley ; Transliteration in Kapauku / Marion L. Doble ; Orthographic problems in Yipounou / Eugene A. Nida ; Problems of word division and capitalization / H. Beck ; Questions and orthography in Sango / William J. Samarin.