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Stark, Ulrike – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
The question of script was paramount in the nineteenth-century debate over Hindi and Urdu, two closely related languages that are characterised by "extreme digraphia". Rather than rehearsing the well-known story of the culturally and politically charged process of differentiation in which the two sister languages became prime markers of…
Descriptors: Urdu, Indo European Languages, Written Language, Religious Factors
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Miller, R. Bruce – Information Technology and Libraries, 1982
Discusses some of the problems in creating bibliographic descriptions for materials published in languages which employ nonroman scripts, analyzes the impact of online catalog systems in overcoming some of these difficulties, and describes some of the computer hardware, particularly terminals, being developed to handle nonroman scripts. (JL)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Display Systems, Information Retrieval, Input Output Devices
Biscaye, Elizabeth; Pepper, Mary – 1989
The 1986 report by the Canadian Task Force on Aboriginal Languages, which recommended that the writing systems used for the northern Dene languages be standardized within 10 years, resulted in the 1987 Dene Standardization Project. The mandate for the project was to make recommendations on orthography standardization as the first step in the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations