6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Plattdeutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface: Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems XI
4. Section One: Theoretical Overviews
5. 1. ‘The Making of Alphabets’ Revisited 3
6. 2. Speech and Spelling 17
7. 3. Principles for the Design of Practical Writing Systems 37
8. 4. The West African Autochthonous Alphabets: An Exercise in Comparative Palaeography 55
9. Section Two: The Creation of Writing Systems
10. 5. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John 77
11. 6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Plattdeutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas 105
12. Section Three: The Revision of Classical Writing Systems
13. 7. Language and Script Reform in China 121
14. 8. Spelling Reform - Israel 1968 149
15. Section Four: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems associated with National Political Establishments
16. 9. Successes and Failures in Dutch Spelling Reform 179
17. 10. Successes and Failures in the Reformation of Norwegian Orthography 247
18. 11. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Irish Spelling 267
19. Section Five: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems not associated with National Political Establishments
20. 12. The Phenomenological and Linguistic Pilgrimage of Yiddish : Some Examples of Functional and Structural Pidginization and Depidginization 293
21. 13. Successes and Failures in the Standardization and Implementation of Yiddish Spelling and Romanization 307
22. 14. Politics and Alphabets in Inner Asia 371
23. 15. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Hausa Spelling 421
24. 16. The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) 441
25. 17. Written Navajo : A Brief History 459
26. Addendum: A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language 471
27. Index of Names 475
28. Index of Subjects 483
29. Backmatter 505